An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.
child abuse
authority
pastor
nanny
northern germany
punishment
puritan
incest
tailor
school teacher
future war
suppression
shame
small village
land baron
village people
1910s
east elbia
landowner
patronage
rural setting
villagers
fear of the unknown