The Forest Is Big and Deep

A traveller, Hans Meyer, has decided not to enlist. He enters the forest from the City. He comes to a village where he is led to an empty shack and given food. He helps sow a field. The pig slaughterer, old and hunchbacked, tells him they need more brandy and sends him to fetch some from the distiller. Meyer finds the distiller, who lives in a cabin in the forest, and together they make brandy. The distiller tells him about another village five days further east from there, a commune where ...