The Council of Birds

In 1929 music teacher Paul Leinert receives an unexpected letter from his old friend Otto Schiffmann a young and talented composer who has moved away from Berlin after a failed marriage The letter is an invitation for Paul to come and visit Otto in his forest cabin and to become familiar with his new work a longawaited symphony Taking along his wife Anna together with his colleague Willi the three find Ottos cabin but their host is nowhere to be seen As they go looking for him Paul notices something odd about the song of the local birds