Fiete im Netz

Summary

Fiete is nine years old and loves fishing. Each afternoon he spends hours sitting at a creek in his village. On one of these afternoons the peace and quiet is suddenly disturbed when two rowdies catch and kill a neighbor’s drake. The boys bribe Fiete to keep quiet about the incident, and he agrees out of fear. However, Fiete feels uneasy about keeping his secret, especially when the neighbor’s daughter starts desperately searching for the drake. Due to a sense of guilt, Fiete even gets nightmares. When he learns that another family’s sheep has been stolen, he realizes that the drake affair was not the last incident in this vein, and finally breaks his silence.