This is a story of two men who could talk to birds - but were completely incapable of talking to each other. A father who fled from his family in the dead of night, and the jackdaw he raised like a child. A son obsessed with his absence - and the young magpie that fell into his path and refused to fly away. It is a story of transformation - from wild to tame, sanity to madness, freedom to captivity and back again - and, ultimately, the desire to build a nest of one's own.
This is a story of two men who could talk to birds - but were completely incapable of talking to each other. A father who fled from his family in the dead of night, and the jackdaw he raised like a child. A son obsessed with his absence - and the young magpie that fell into his path and refused to fly away. It is a story of transformation - from wild to tame, sanity to madness, freedom to captivity and back again - and, ultimately, the desire to build a nest of one's own.