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The BAFF! Festival, which has been shaping the puppet theater spectacle in Basel for 30 years, offers a platform for international artists to present the facets of modern puppet theater every two years.

The play starts in 1959, when the Limbos family lived in the Congo, which was still a Belgian colony at the time. A year later, in the year of independence, the children were sent back to Belgium to live with their uncle, a pastor. For Agnès Limbos, who was eight years old at the time, this episode was traumatic.

During the period of separation, the father wrote 46 letters to his children. Little Agnès eagerly awaited each one. "Every time a letter arrived, our uncle would sit down with us in the two large leather armchairs and solemnly read it to us. The 70-year-old woman I have become now wishes to have a conversation with that young girl." The master of object theater opens up a narrative space in which biographical and historical pasts resonate with each other—as intimate as they are universal.

English with German surtitles