Thomas Grand | Switzerland
A little girl discovers a house deep in the woods. When she ventures there she enters a world where everything is flat.
Guinea fowl, cat, children...
It is the work of an old man, who spends his time flattening, with his press, everything around him. The meeting of the little girl and the old man will generate a reflection on the difference. We learn that the old man, marked by a solitary and painful childhood, wishes to erase the differences between living beings, source of pain and sadness according to him. This is why he presses everything around him in order to give the same thickness and a semblance of equality to the world around him.
Thanks to her enthusiasm and vitality, the little girl will succeed, not without difficulty, in changing the old man’s mind. The latter will end up seeing the difference as a richness and not as a burden.
Published by Editions Askip.