Konrad or Das Kind aus der Tinnbächse

It can be that fast: The deliveryman rings, you accept something, sign. And although you can't actually remember ordering an oversized tin can, you open it and find in it — a child?!

Berti Bartolotti would never have thought that she would suddenly become a mother due to an incorrect delivery! The company Himmelblau, which specializes in the assembly line production of sample children, has the Premium Chromo model. XY/3859, which is seven years old and is called Konrad. To prevent Konrad from being picked up again, Berti makes a wild plan: The model boy must now become such that the company no longer recognizes its own product — disobedient, cheeky and loud!

Ruth Brauer-Kvam shows Samuel Penderbayne's children's opera Konrad or The Child from the Tin Box as a colorful modern fairy tale about solidarity and diversity, about the meaning of family and the question of what it means to be perfect.