The last scene sees the villagers consoling Elsa and the children and recalling Paavali.

Older villagers can recall there being a good congregation and a choir made up of local boys.

A villager recalls the locals' joke that caring for sheep, after all, is a kind of guard duty.

Other villagers recalled becoming ill after contact with Mrs. Jumsih, and she was labeled a witch.

And the next day, soldiers of the regular army arrived, villagers recalled.

One villager recalled that the dawn attack came from the hill overlooking the village.

"Shanwei and Dongzhou are still good friends," a villager recalled that the party official said.

The men were armed and drunk, and they were looking for women, villagers recalled the following morning.

The figures portray historical characters, contemporary society and rural villagers recalled from the artist's childhood in Japan.

When the King of France died in battle," one villager recalls, "they boiled him.