A boy and his father on a journey from Norway to Greece, in search of the boy's mother; a dwarf who gives the boy a magnifying glass, and a baker who gives him a bun; a miniature book that tells the story of a sailor shipwrecked on a desert island in the year 1790; a pack of playing cards with a life of their own; a Joker, who looks too deeply and too much. These are the ingredients in this story-within-a-story, in which fantasy and reality, the present and the past, are mixed.
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