Andreas Barthel

Shortly after Eli returns from a successful hunt for a suspected criminal, a stranger dressed as a priest suddenly shows up at his house. He claims to know him - and accuses him of having taken part in a cruel crime. A malicious lie? Eli denies the crime, his wife Rose believes him - at first. But what does the stranger, who persists in his accusations, want?

A village somewhere in Bohemia in the 19th century: Seven citizens are found mutilated within a very short space of time. The notables are at a loss. Is it something to do with the mysterious stranger who recently came to the village? Is he a messenger of the devil? In any case, he doesn't seem to have come alone: Eerie apparitions scare the inhabitants, and a werewolf is supposedly up to mischief in the woods. All just a figment of the imagination? Not at all! Because the stranger is gathering his emissaries around him to raise the dead. It's time for his revenge.

"...and when the song of the birds falls silent, you close your eyes forever" This is how young Chiara knows it from the story her mother once told her. A story that also haunts her when she wakes up in the hospital after a suicide attempt. For the raven visits her every night, as she tells her closest confidant. And this man, too, soon finds himself drawn into a mysterious world that, in a strange way, also seems to be linked to his own story. A story that could have taken different paths for all involved, as is to be seen...

The 94 years old Alma is a passionate environmentalist. She doesn’t like the deforestation of the rain forests at all, that the Germans eat ever more meat, and that animals are fattened in concentrated animal feeding operations across the country. The pensioner looks for equal minded people via adverts in the local papers and gets to know the young kindergarten worker Vicky. Both participate in a group meeting in the restaurant “Los Veganeros”, where they and other environmental activists plan their projects. During one of these meetings Vicky propose to abduct the pig fattening industrialist Heinz Granitzka to force the public to take notice of the horrible conditions the animals are being forced to live in. The group all but jumps at that idea and start to carry it out, with fatal results.

The 94 years old Alma is a passionate environmentalist. She doesn’t like the deforestation of the rain forests at all, that the Germans eat ever more meat, and that animals are fattened in concentrated animal feeding operations across the country. The pensioner looks for equal minded people via adverts in the local papers and gets to know the young kindergarten worker Vicky. Both participate in a group meeting in the restaurant “Los Veganeros”, where they and other environmental activists plan their projects. During one of these meetings Vicky propose to abduct the pig fattening industrialist Heinz Granitzka to force the public to take notice of the horrible conditions the animals are being forced to live in. The group all but jumps at that idea and start to carry it out, with fatal results.