Karoline (Sonne) works as a seamstress in a factory making uniforms for the war effort.
Karoline cannot be blamed for aspiring to do the same.
So, she carries her baby to term and hands her to Dagmar.
Vic Carmen Sonne in Magnus von Horn’s ‘The Girl With The Needle’The Match Factory
Within a day, Karoline is told the baby has been rehoused with a respectable family.
Doctors or lawyers, Dagmar says vaguely, and Karoline desperately wants to believe her.
In the storys margins, a pair of fairytale princes present themselves to Karoline.
He has a good heart, but Karoline struggles to allow him back in.
It is because this storys truths are so stark that this high-wire work succeeds.
Sonne, too, deserves credit for navigating Karolines journey through its peaks and troughs.
