The masterful tale by Siegfried Lenz is atmospherically illustrated. Every day, a boy stands at the railway crossing and waves. But no one ever waves back, and the boy is very sad. Then his father comes up with the idea of waving to him from a train, sets off, and spends the night in a hotel. He has to share the room with a bitter man who tries to undermine his loving idea, as if it were a matter of defending his own displeasure. It gets late, and the father oversleeps, but the conversation with him has changed the hard-hearted stranger. An unmistakable Lenz story that touches the heart, beautifully staged by Joëlle Tourlonias.