TOULOUSE
She doesn’t know it, but the train is full of Jewish families on its way to the death camps. The poor woodcutter keeps these scraps of paper as precious possessions without knowing what is written on them, because she can’t read.
One day, she hopes for another gift, something that might help her and her husband to live better. One day, a large parcel wrapped in a beautiful golden shawl falls off the train… In it, a child…
This sublime tale by Jean-Claude Grumberg is presented in the form of a staged reading accompanied on the piano by Swan Starosta.
