According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains...
In a rural western town in 1890 a woman has a mute old daughter after relations with her step father, which in his need of money, wants to sell them...
Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German...