Stanislau around 1900: a Galician small town on the edge of the monarchy. Adelja and Stefa, intertwined like the branches of two trees, supporting each other while also suffocating one another, grow up together. When Adelja marries the stonemason Petro, their close entanglement becomes a triangle from which Stefa desperately tries to free herself. And when the magician Torn visits the town with his circus, the angelic boy Felix suddenly appears in Petro's workshop - a little snake man, speechless, flexible, and fragile like paper. "The Paper Boy" offers more than a dense, sensory-rich portrayal of an era; it is an urgent tale of love and betrayal.