Vater

Father: the story of a man who has returned from war, internally destroyed and marked by the horrors of the front. The story of a man who retreats for days into a half-decayed cabin in the woods, where he can be alone with his memories. The story of a man who collects hundreds of mirrors in his chest, in which he often looks at his disturbed face as if it belonged to a stranger. Hans Salcher tells this story from the perspective of a child who accepts the world as it is, who does not doubt or question. Like in a fairy tale, it seeks its own explanations for the inexplicable, finds the hidden key to the father's closed world, and opens the door that leads to the true person behind the facade of the war-traumatized. In his first narrative, Ha.