Adeline had a very difficult life, her mother and her brothers completely ignored her
and her father didn’t stop mistreating her. She had a mental disorder, she was
continually accompanied by different voices in her head. The only one in the house who
helped her was her brother Jonathan, who often tried to protect her from their father's blows.
He did the same thing one day when things got really serious.
Her father grabbed her by the neck and was about to kill her. But in the end he left her saying:
“It doesn't matter, tomorrow they will come for you”. She, without understanding anything,
asked her brother why he said that. He tried to cover it up by saying he had no idea.
But the next day the worst forecasts were fulfilled. Two people from the sanatorium
went to pick her up. Despite the insistence of her brother, who even hit one of them,
and despite her kicks, she was hospitalized at the Black Forest Mental Institution.
There, her life was even worse than at home. She felt that every day was the same,
she was mistreated and she lived in absolute hell. Her only salvation was the nurse Annelie
Grünewald, she never yelled at her and also led her favorite activity, sewing.
But one day everything changed, while she was lying in her bed she heard that in the next room,
the chief of staff was yelling for everyone to get up. She ignored her and continued for
a while longer, but suddenly, she appeared in her room and threatened to get up. The
voice in her head told her to hit her, but once again she steeled herself and obeyed.
That day, on the way to the cafe, she saw a strange character in the forest,
he had no face but he communicated with her. He told her that when she could,
she should go meet him. She knew from the other patients in the sanatorium
that escaping from there was impossible. So she just put her head down and kept walking.
That day Nurse Annelie was very sad and Adeline noticed. She learned that the
reason was precisely… her. From the direction of the center they had decided that the little
girl's illness was incurable, that's why they wanted to put her to sleep forever, kill her.
But Annelie loved her too much and she wasn't going to allow it,
so she suggested running away. She would help her meet her brother in the woods.
That same night the nurse distracted the doctors so that Adeline could go
out the side door. They succeeded, but they didn’t think that the gardener would
come out of the shed just then, and catch her. He warned everyone while the little girl ran as
fast as she could through the forest. In fact, in fear, she didn't stop to look where she was going,
and suddenly she realized that she was in the middle of the forest. She didn't
know where to go, until she heard the voice of her invisible friend: "This way, little girl."
She took a step in that direction, but quickly realized that the sanatorium staff
were very close. Among them, the chief of staff, that horrible person.
She had an ax in her hands, which made her sense that the thing would end fatally.
Her strength was failing but she still ran as fast as she could. Her strange friend was trying
to help her by intimidating the staff, but there were too many of them. And while she was running,
Adeline tripped and fell. That caused the chief of staff to catch up to her. She begged her that
she didn’t want to go back to the sanatorium, and the boss told her that she could grant that wish.
She raised her ax and brought it down on the little girl's body multiple times. So many
times that there was hardly anything left of her. The members accompanying the boss were totally
horrified to see what she had done, but what they didn't expect was to turn around and see a
huge figure staring at them. When the chief finished her work, she turned so that one
of them could hold the ax for her, but all that was found were three bodies hanging from a tree.
Right behind her was him, that long, faceless figure. He killed her and also all the other
workers and patients of the sanatorium. He had witnessed a thousand times the
terrible things that happened there, that had to end. He only left one person alive,
Nurse Annelie. This one was going to have a new reason to live: Adeline. The strange
man brought her back to life, now she was like a rag doll, with many seams, but alive.