Maximilian Anthony Hirschle

A young man searches for his loved one in a city thrust into chaos by the sudden arrival of a mysterious and threatening alien presence.

1942, dans la France occupée, Gilles est arrêté pour être déporté dans un camp en Allemagne. Juste avant de se faire fusiller, il échappe à la mort en jurant aux soldats qu'il n’est pas juif mais persan. Ce mensonge le sauve momentanément puisque l’un des chefs du camp souhaite apprendre le farsi pour ses projets d’après-guerre. Au risque de se faire prendre, Gilles invente une langue chaque nuit, pour l'enseigner au capitaine SS le lendemain. La relation particulière qui se crée entre les deux hommes ne tarde pas à éveiller la jalousie et les soupçons des autres...

The corpse of a fruit farmer is found in a meadow orchard. It was buried upside down, draped like a scarecrow. The spectacular staging of the murder leads Commissioner Maris Bächle and her colleague Konrad Diener to suspect a personal motive. While the black asylum seeker is quickly suspected as a perpetrator, the Freudenstadt inhabitants speculate behind closed doors about the involvement of earth spirits - of course, just for fun. However, when Konrad Diener's introverted 14-year-old son disappears without a trace in the forest during a school trip and reappears completely changed, but refuses to give any information about his whereabouts, Maris remembers how she was found in the forest as an 8-year-old. She had mysteriously survived there. With the help of the city archivist, the two investigators come across an old legend about forest spirits and an old place of execution in the middle of the forest. The forest court once met in this mystical place. Apparently it is active again.