"On the night Ronja was born, thunder rolled over the mountains. "Yes, it was a stormy night, when all the fiends who lived in Mattiswald were hiding in plain sight. In the middle of the forest, among robbers, grey gnomes and wild dogs, Ronja, the daughter of the robber captain Mattis, grows up. One day on her forays she meets Birk, the son of a robber from the hostile Borka clan. And when their parents forbid them to be friends, Ronja and Birk flee into the woods ... "The wild romanticism, the power of the original of this story is infectious."(Süddeutsche Zeitung)