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A water spirit living in the ancient Wendelsee watches in wonder as the rivers slowly divide its home into two lakes, and a village grows on the new land between them. As centuries pass and the waters recede, the spirit must choose which lake to call home -- or find a way to live in the river that still connects them both.
A young novice at the Augustinian monastery in 1257 discovers a secret passage connecting the two lakes and must decide whether to share it or keep the monastery's peace. As the community of monks and nuns grows to hundreds, the novice learns that the greatest secrets are not hidden underground but in the bonds between people living between the waters.
A child rides the Jungfrau Railway in 1912 on its very first journey, peering through the Eigerwand windows into the Eiger's heart. Deep inside the mountain, they meet the ghost of a tunnel worker who wants his story remembered -- one of the 30 who gave their lives so that others might reach the Top of Europe.
A child in Interlaken discovers a cryptic clue to the whereabouts of the missing Unspunnen Stone and must outwit the tricksters who stole it, following a trail of clues from the 1805 festival meadow across the Bernese Oberland. Along the way, they learn why an 83.5-kilogram block of granite means so much to a nation.
During a Tellspiele rehearsal in the Rugen woods, a child actor playing Tell's son accidentally fires a real arrow and is transported back to 1307, where the real William Tell needs help. Surrounded by living history in the forest amphitheatre, the child must find courage to face down a tyrant -- and discover that the bravest act is not the arrow, but the oath.
A child afraid of heights must cross the glass-floored Zwei-Seen-Steg on Harder Kulm, but discovers that each lake holds a different magical world visible only from above. Through the glass, Lake Thun shimmers with the memories of grand tourists and steamships, while Lake Brienz glows with the songs of woodcarvers and fishermen -- and only the brave can see both at once.
In 1847, a grieving Mendelssohn paints the Jungfrau and a child from the village watches. Together they discover that music and painting can heal even the deepest sorrow, as the composer transforms his grief for his lost sister Fanny into watercolours and a haunting quartet that will echo through the mountains long after he is gone.
In 1860, the citizens of Interlaken must save their beloved meadow from being built upon. A child rallies the town, going door to door to gather support, and the Hoehematte itself reveals why it must stay green -- it is the dreaming place of the mountains, where the Jungfrau's reflection rests each evening, and to build upon it would break the oldest pact between village and peak.
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