Plot

A young woman who oozes sensuality arrives in a small town and marries the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?

Oozing sensuality, the seductively alluring Eliane Wieck arrives in a frilly dress carrying a small suitcase, with her demure German mother and disabled father, at a rural southern-French town. Pin-Pon, a car mechanic and volunteer firefighter, instantly falls for the charms of the mysterious newcomer, and before long they get married. However, was it love at first sight for Eliane too? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's dust-covered old mechanical piano in the barn? What drives the cryptic young woman? Is it hungry curiosity--or something far more sinister?—Nick Riganas

One day, Eliane, a young woman, appears in a small French village. Together with her mother, a German, and her paralyzed father, who is hardly ever seen, she tries to gain a foothold in the village community. However, she is anything but diplomatic and reserved. If anything, she emphasizes her erotic charisma. To the delight of most of the men, but not everyone in the village likes her. Florimond, called "Pin-Pon", a car mechanic of the same age who is involved in the volunteer fire department, is immediately fascinated by Eliane. She comes across as very self-confident, almost arrogant, but she also has a completely different, vulnerable side. After a bumpy start, the two actually get closer. But when Eliane discovers an old piano at a meeting in the barn, she is transformed. She investigates further into the origin of the instrument - it almost seems as if she is on a real mission and is unconditionally pursuing a goal. Finally, she comes across a concrete lead that has to do with a tragic event, a crime, that happened a long time ago. At first glance, Eliane seems naive, but she turns out to be a determined avenger. But her actions have fatal consequences for her, Pin-Pon and several others.—3sat

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a promiscuous dunce); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what has it to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick wedding, and the surname on her birth certificate?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>