Elsternnächte
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MatureOngoing15m
Last published Tue, Jul 22, 2025
Scotland, 1983
After saying goodbye to her mother and to everything she's ever known - Francis finds herself in a village. Moss-covered and lost in the middle of nowhere.
Her mother is gone now - off to Italy in search of freedom; and Francis Coleman is left behind, in a strange house with a father who barely speaks.
The land is quiet, yet somehow loud and full of mystery - houses that keep more secrets than the people inside them; a new beginning, even for Francis.
The village feels like a place that's hiding something - even the school is... off. And at its center: a woman with cool eyes and a voice like yellowed paper. Miss Ainsley.
Francis is told to stay away.
But she sees something in her.
Something she can't name - only feel.
Among dense woods, village fairs, and silence, Francis begins to lose herself; and slowly, to find something new. And while no one says a word aloud, something begins to grow inside her.
Something that must never be spoken.
Something that has no name and never should.
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