S1.E27 ∙ Trouble with the Police

'Library of the Early Mind' is an exploration of how children's literature affects our culture, our children and ourselves, hearing from the writers and illustrators who have put a half-billion books on your children's night tables. The film examines the more serious artistry and the darker side of creativity that go into these childhood tales.

Sita is a Hindu girl from Suriname who lives with her family in The Netherlands. Trying to assimilate to Dutch culture, she looks for a job, while still learning traditional Hindu classical dance and helping with a Hindu wedding. The different cultures, traditions and religions must all confront each other.

Zhenya is the head of the weather station, Vanya is a junior meteorologist and household assistant. The ship "Mikhail Somov" comes to the Kanin Peninsula once a year, delivers food - and then the heroes are left alone until next spring. One day a storm comes to them - and the heroes are left without communication, alone, alone with bad weather and each other for 3 long days.

After having suffered discrimination throughout her life, Claudia, a trans-Chilean midwife, remembers the hardest and most difficult moments she had to face in order to live her identity. The documentary tells its history, its struggle and the constant abuses that lived on the part of a society that still excludes those it considers different.