In occupied Czernowitz in 1943, a Jewish mother hides her eleven-year-old son Hugo with her best friend Mariana. The prostitute risks her life by sheltering him in her room in a brothel.

The novel 'Blooms of Darkness' by Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld was long considered unfilmable since the boy hiding in a cupboard has to rely almost entirely on his sense of hearing to understand what is happening around him.
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