![]() As months and even years pass by, Sorcha's lonely existence is only brightened by her hope of breaking the spell on her brothers.and a foreign man nicknamed 'Red'. Terrible events hinder her progress and eventually take her further and further away from her home. Living in hiding, Sorcha must avoid discovery, survive off the land, and toil night and day to complete her task without the benefit of any tools of the trade, using only what the forest around her can provide-all while keeping silent and bearing unfathomable loneliness. ![]() They have been turned into swans and can only be returned to their true forms if she creates a shirt for each brother with her own hands - and she must remain completely mute until the task is finished. A 13-year-old girl, Sorcha, (pronounced Sor-ka or sometimes Ser-ha) must sew six shirts from a painful nettle plant in order to save her brothers from a witch's enchantment. Daughter of the Forest is based loosely on " The Six Swans" (a story that has many versions, one of which is recounted by Hans Christian Andersen). ![]()
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