A sensitive boy navigates familial separation, household instability, and institutional abuse while developing quiet resilience.
Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
Wojciech Marczewski
Rating: 6.3/10 (14 votes)