By showing loyalty to the community’s codes, she earned the respect of the village elders
Plot
Skalde lives in a small rural community, far from a world that may no longer exist. She is an intruder in her own home because she was born to a 'stranger' mother and therefore marked by a social stigma that she cannot easily erase.
However, when he encounters a mysterious
Read all. "Skalde" (Mathilde Bundschuh) her rural community really only tolerates her being born to a stranger (Susanne Wolf) in this tight-knit, introspective village.
But that’s a problem when the village dogs start behaving erratically just as he meets the young girl “Meisis”; (Viola Hinz) who came from the forest and whom they marry
Their society operates on a barter system – they trade manure with their neighbors and thanks to the friendly but qualified support of the local elder "Pesolta" (Ulrich Matthes) and bolder support from "Göst" (Karin Neuhäuser) will pass. The very superstitious population decides that she is some kind of harbinger of evil and demands that she be sent away, but the "Skalde" she is determined to be just an ordinary young girl and refuses to cooperate.
This earns her the enmity of people who now mostly avoid her
Maybe now is the time for "Skalda" consider whether it’s the best place for her and the baby to live—especially since the mutterings of her former neighbors are getting a little more menacing? This film is set in the present day, which makes the plot all the more effective as it deals with aspects of the local lupine mystique that seems so anachronistic from people who routinely use cars and cell phones!