Stories in the Dark

<p>A terrified 12-year-old boy finds himself separated from his family in the unfamiliar streets of a war-torn city. He takes refuge in a bombed-out house and in the total blackness his bravado crumbles into tears. </p><p>Into his life steps Anna - older street smart and scornful of his crying. As a way of shutting the boy up she starts to tell him a story that she vaguely remembers from her own childhood. And so begins a journey into the shifting shimmering world of ogres princes singing bones foolish lads and wolf-mothers. </p><p><em>Stories in the Dark</em> explores the power of storytelling mingling the magic and earthy wisdom of folk tales with the hard-edged story of violence conflict and the struggle to survive.</p>