An awkward evening. Reyneveld M. L.

The Mülders family - Dutch farmers from Northern Brabant. They live in a religious reformist village, and their days are subordinated to a long -established rhythm, which is dictated by church services, the milking of cows, harvesting. Yas is a strange child, in her fantasies, children's naive cruelty is pushed with piety, love with envy, the life of the body with the fate of loved ones. When, according to a tragic accident, he dies, falling under the ice, her older brother, the life of Mülders irreparably changes. They do not talk about death, but by silently settling on the farm, her shadow stains the imagination with a frightening darkness. To everything else, because it was she, when the brother left that day prayed to God for a terrible exchange: “Please do not take my rabbit, and, if possible, take my brother Mattis, amin”