Viper
Monique S
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(Monika Magdalena Schenke, Cotes d'Armor, France, June 22, 2020)
In the aftermath of the second world war in Germany a mother has to leave her child behind to be able to escape two former Gestapo officers, who are in search of revenge for what she did in the war, when her code name was Viper. She leaves the boy in the care of two ladies of the quarter, Hamburg’s famous red light district, the Kiez, as the locals call it.The more the boy learns from his “aunts”, who care for him, the more his desire grows to become like his mum, when her grows up. At his fifth birthday his mind is made up.When five years later, now in secondary education, he defends Mei Ling, an older girl against an older boy, she takes him for a tomboy and her family takes “her” in. The patriarch, Master Wang Da Long notices potential and starts teaching the child, whom he names Xiaolong, ancient Chinese martial arts.At her fifteenth birthday Master Wang sends Xiaolong to Italy and a family, who was associated to Viper during the war. Here Xiaolong starts stepping into the mother’s footsteps.