INDEPENDENT FILM FOR INDEPENDENT MINDS

On the eve of World War II in Eichwald, a village in Protestant northern Germany, the rather oppressed children of the pastor (Burghart Klaussner), the widowed doctor (Rainer Bock) and the disliked landowner Baron (Ulrich Tukur) experience a series of bizarrely violent incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. The schoolteacher (Christian Friedl), who develops an attraction for the Baron's new nanny Eva (Leonie Benesch) is drawn into the mystery as he tries to find the perpetrators.