Pinnocha: The Wooden Boy of Lapland

In this surrealist modern folktale, a young, haunted concentration camp survivor Gershom runs away to Lapland to live in total isolation, which drives him to built and burn an effigy of a dead boy he encountered during his time of imprisonment. Whilst aiming to destroy the wooden effigy, it instead comes to life with the instincts of a human baby, which Gershom then takes under his wing, and christens it Pinnocha, who spiritually grows into a German speaking, innocent, happy little boy.
Though in a land where old tradition and the dawn of the thermo-nuclear age clash, Pinnocha discovers the world is not kind to little wooden people, nor to all people.