/3D animated, 100 min./
/2013, Czech Republic/

SYNOPSIS

A Storyteller comes to the village in the hills whose tales are said to have magical powers. He tells the villagers of a Pilgrim who embarks on a long journey to find a cure for the tainted Gingerland. However, the villagers do not get to hear the rest of the tale - when they wake up in the morning, they find, to their horror, that the Storyteller has gone. They start to blame František who has stolen a glance in the Storyteller's enigmatic bag. His task is now to find the Storyteller and he must not return until he has found out about the fate of Gingerland. František wanders through the country and learns pieces of the story from other travellers. Eventually he realizes that Gingerland's fate is in his hands.
The motif of the story deals with archetypal meanings of heroic stories, their slow disappearance in the modern era and at the same time the almost tangible need for stories which has been an intrinsic feature of mankind since time immemorial.

Special Mention Animafest Pro Zagreb 2009
Participated in Cartoon Forum 2010