In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her disabled father relocate to the town of Pin-Pon, a firefighter. Everybody takes notice of Eliane's aggressive demeanor. She chooses Pin-Pon and soon finds herself crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and despises her reputation as a dunce and an easy person); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this a case of love or is it a plot? She inquires about the piano in the barn with Pin-mother Pon's and aunt: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she care, and what does it have to do with her mother's grief, her father's injury, this hasty marriage, and the surname on her birth certificate?
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In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her disabled father relocate to the town of Pin-Pon, a firefighter. Everybody takes notice of Eliane's aggressive demeanor. She chooses Pin-Pon and soon finds herself crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and despises her reputation as a dunce and an easy person); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this a case of love or is it a plot? She inquires about the piano in the barn with Pin-mother Pon's and aunt: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she care, and what does it have to do with her mother's grief, her father's injury, this hasty marriage, and the surname on her birth certificate?
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