Peter Jecklin

A story of a young girl who lives in the Swiss Alps with her goat herding Grandfather.

Three lonely herdsmen starved of female companionship creates the girl of their dreams, from a broom, some straw and a few rags. The creation - Sennentuntschi, lives and breathe to cook, clean and look after the three.

A young teacher in Zurich in the 1950s falls in love with a transvestite star but is torn between his bourgeois existence and his commitment to homosexuality.

1938. Austria has been annexed by Nazi Germany, and Switzerland has closed its borders for Jewish refugees - a death sentence for thousands. But not all Swiss officials observe this inhuman order.

Psychologist Eliane Hess loses her objectivity and becomes personally involved with a traumatized 8-year-old boy, who has lost his parents in a car crash.