Cardinal In The Snow

South Tyrol, winter 1917. The village keeps changing hands.Ten-year-old Fernando changes with it. Fernando when the Italians hold the square. Ferdinand when the Austrians take it back. His father times the flag changes. Forty-three seconds. Thirty-eight. Twenty-eight.The café survives by serving both sides. The regulars are disappearing. The flag changes are getting faster. And Fernando is startin...