Full Description
A girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of
the early 1950s. Paralysed and unable to breathe on her own,
she is committed to hospital in Copenhagen and placed in
an iron lung. Forty years earlier, near Budapest, a child grows up in an
orphanage for boys. The child goes by the
name of 'Boy' but is not like the others, as their body seems to
transcend the categories of boy or girl. Between these two
young people, there is a powerful, enigmatic bond that
stretches across time and space.
