Hypothermia

Synopsis

"Oskar lives in the state hospital in Andernach, Germany.

Although a patient, he helps Dr Erich by keeping the other patients in order, joking with the staff, singing opera and tending to a fine collection of plants in the conservatory.

And then, in the bleak winter of 1940, a dark visitor arrives, an old colleague of Dr Erich whose career has since taken a very different direction.

Two holes are dug into the ice of a frozen lake and Oskar has a decision to make...To live...Or to die"--P.

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