In war-torn times, a poor woodcutter and his wife live in a large forest. One day, the woman finds and rescues a little girl, bringing an irrevocable change to the lives of the couple and those whose paths the child will cross..
It tells a story set in Poland during World War II, almost like a folk tale. Most of the plot takes place in a forest, so typical of the aforementioned folk tales, revolving around a pair of woodcutters who adopt a little Jewish girl who was thrown from a deportation train that was passing through their forest.
She was thrown by her father to save her from certain death in Auschwitz. I will not go into further details of the plot, so that you can see them for yourself, I just want to add that the film will reach a deeply philosophical conclusion.
The drawing style is correct, not too detailed nor too harsh, presenting mostly scenes in low light with dominant shades of gray, thus emphasizing the horrors of the most infamous war and the emergence of mass extermination in human history. And then the soundtrack which is sublime: The musical score, the sound effects, the narration and the voice acting (I saw the original version in French), all perfectly suited to present this gem of a film.
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