Pia’s life is also unsettled by her parent’s marital problems, as her English expat mother wants to move the family to England.Īt the center of the story is thus the tragic but sadly not uncommon phenomenon of young girls disappearing. Herr Schiller is a genial older man who welcomes both children into his home and tells them local folk tales (most of which are apparently real stories of the area). Due to her grandmother’s unfortunate accident with an Adventskranz (advent wreath), Pia becomes a social outcast and has to make do with the friendship of StinkStefan (possibly the only one in school more unpopular than she is) and Herr Schiller. Our young narrator is Pia, known as the girl whose grandmother exploded. But then Katharina Linden disappears and suddenly the townspeople have to face the fact that these things happen even in their midst and Bad Münstereifel turns into one more place where parents are afraid to let their children roam outside. In Bad Münstereifel, a small town in Germany, everyone knows everyone and their business.
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