adapt Aaron Appelfeld's novel of the same name. In 1943, on the borders of Ukraine and Poland, Yulia, who is fleeing the ghetto and deportation, entrusts her son Hugo, 11, to a childhood friend, Mariana, 35, who is a prostitute in a brothel. Hidden in a windowless room adjoining the young woman's bedroom, Hugo's existence is suspended by the noises and scenes he guesses through the partition: with imagination as his only resource, Hugo becomes aware of both the massacres being perpetrated and the mysteries of sexuality...
