Synopsis
Emil is eight years old and although living with his parents he would prefer to be living in the mountains with his grandfather. The old man has lived alone there since the death of his dog Skundi and cannot bear the thought of finding another dog to take his place. Emil’s parents have no time for their son and the boy thinks back nostalgically to earlier times when all three used to go rambling in the mountains and daydream and make up fantastic stories. The only thing the child wants is to have his own dog but his father refuses to have an animal in the house. Underterred Emil decides to find a job and scrape together the money to buy a pup chosen from kennels. Having saved the sum necessary he chooses a dog but his father is adamant. Emil has no alternative but to take the new Skundi with him to his grandfather’s...