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- After twenty years Sarah Hirt returns to her rural hometown in Swiss canton Basle-Land, where she has spent part of her childhood. Together with her mother und brother she wants to clear her deceased grandfather's house. There she finds a mysterious book, a collection with local myths about witches, dwarfs, ghosts and the so called "Bachpfattli". After a nightly visit from an old man who wants the myth book and after her brother sees a giant dog and suffers from a swollen head the next day, Sarah realizes there's something going on in her hometown.
- In June of 1866, while in Washington to pursue reparations from Congress for property losses during the Gold Rush, Swiss-born John Sutter sits for a portrait that still hangs in Solothurn. As Frank Buchser paints, Sutter relates his life story: his childhood, apprenticeship, early marriage, business failures, and departure to America, alone, in the late 1830s. He establishes his business empire in what becomes Sacramento, losing out again when gold is discovered at a mill he's building, his lands to be trampled by the world rushing in. Nearly 20 years later, reunited with his wife and living in New York, dignified and without regrets, he futilely lobbies Congress.