Edgar Bischoff

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.

In a small town in WWII France, a German officer is billeted in the house of an elderly man and his niece who resist the occupation by refusing to interact with him, even as he speaks to them candidly about his life and hopes for the future of France and Germany.

Four little girls flee the cold concrete world of the housing project they live in, take refuge every evening in a house on an island in the middle of the Marne River. It is secret hideaway that no one should trespass. Unfortunately a big girl reveals everything to the schoolmistress and scandal breaks out. But it is Sophie, the youngest of the group, who gets suspected by her..."friends".