THE JAILER

Elim used to be a farmer, until the Commissar took his land and made him a jailer.

The prison is on a high hill, only reached by a narrow and torturous path.

The commissar delivers to Elim the man Tomas, as a suspected criminal.

Olga is the daughter of Tomas, who goes to Elim to seek her father’s freedom.

It is the middle of a dark and snowy night.

Rassa is Olga’s son, a hot-headed, idealistic young man.

Elim is tired of being a jailer and of always locking up innocent people.

Elim in brown, Tomas in gray.

They sit in a dark room with a table, two chairs and a single light.

Stern Elim secretly loves Olga and so frees Tomas.

Tomas and Olga flee the prison and the hated jailer.

But they know they cannot be free as long as no one knows Elim really freed Tomas.

What will the villagers say when they see Tomas walking around, but that he escaped?

Rassa, not knowing any of this, decides to kill the jailer to free his grandfather.

Elim cannot convince him that Tomas has been set free.

Rassa believes that his grandfather is in one of the dungeons, hidden there by the jailer.

Finally, Elim writes a letter of release for Tomas and gives it to Rassa to deliver to Tomas.

But Rassa falls from the snowy path after he leaves the prison.

(How do You end this story?)

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