Suutarin oppi-poika: Kertoelma lapsille

In a modest town a short journey from a great German city lives a widowed mother and her only son, Wille. After the goldsmith father died penniless, the mother survives by knitting and frugally buying the smallest portions of meat, yet she is determined to give her child a chance at a brighter future. She remembers her husband’s love of drawing, a talent Wille seems to inherit, and decides to keep the few remaining sketches as a seed for his education.

When Wille begins to learn to read, write and count, the old sketchbook becomes his greatest treasure. He spends hours copying the simple lines of rooms, trees and animals, his pencil moving with a careful devotion that astonishes his mother. She watches his progress with hopeful pride, dreaming that one day his art might lift them from hardship, even as she battles a lingering cough that threatens her strength.