Mystery · 1828

The Boy Who Had Never Seen The Sky: Kaspar Hauser, 1828

A teenage boy is standing in the middle of a city square, and something about him is deeply wrong. He can barely walk, and he can only say one sentence, over and over. It's the twenty-sixth of May, 1828, in Nuremberg.

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