I used to run barefoot on soft grass

With the premature loss of his mother, Maya also lost her native Belarusian language. She does not understand the Austrian aunt who takes care of her in a remote Austrian village. The childhood of a deep-seated girl is monotonous in her lonely aunt's house. Only Marek's neighbor, who was deported from Poland to Austria for forced labor under Nazism, was able to create an atmosphere of security and human warmth for the Maya. The sound of his native language evokes in the girl memories of her own lost roots and lost language, which she will later go in search of. . Its protagonist Jacob grows up in the depressing silence of his parents' home. Lonely and short contacts with the world around him give the intimidated boy the idea that winter nights outside the forester's house are not so long. Jacob's subconscious desire to escape from fears and parental abuse cannot but have fatal consequences.