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By demonstrating loyalty to the community’s codes, she has earned the respect of the village elder
Scenario
Skalde lives in a small rural community, far from a world that may no longer exist. She is an outsider in her own home, having been born to an “outsider” mother and thus marked by a social stigma that she cannot easily erase.
However, when she meets a mysterious
Read more. “Skalde” (Mathilde Bundschuh) is really only tolerated by her rural community, having been born to an outsider (Susanne Wolf) in this close-knit and introspective village.
All of this is challenged when the village dogs begin to behave erratically, just as she encounters a young girl, “Meisis” (Viola Hinz), who has come from the forest and whom they take in
Her society operates on a barter system – she trades manure with her neighbors and, thanks to the friendly but skilled support of the local elder “Pesolt” (Ulrich Matthes) and the more aggressive support of “Gösta” (Karin Neuhäuser), they survive. The extremely superstitious townspeople decide that she is some sort of harbinger of evil and demand that she be sent away, but “Skalde” is determined that she is just an ordinary young woman and refuses to cooperate.
This earns her the enmity of a townspeople who now largely shun her
Might now be the time for “Skalde” to consider whether this is the best place for her and the young man to live – especially as the murmurings of her former neighbors are becoming a little more ominous? This film is set in contemporary times, which makes the plot all the more effective when dealing with aspects of a local wolf mysticism that seem so anachronistic coming from people who routinely use cars and cell phones!
