Q:Build a movie plot around this: Who did Jean ask to deliver the letter? Arlette and Pierrette
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Jean and Pierrette, the two children of Pierre Amsler, mayor of a mountain village in the Haut-Valais (Switzerland), are about 12 and 4 years old when her mother dies. While Pierrette fails to understand the situation and believes her nanny telling her that her mother is on a voyage, Jean is deeply shaken, nearly losing himself in long and bitter mourning. His father, at first hardly less desperate than Jean, quickly realizes that he is unable to continue his former life while at the same time mourning for his wife: He feels overburdened by his duties as the mayor, his new domestic duties, the lonely raising of his children and the depressive mood filling his home since the death of his wife. When half a year has passed, he decides to marry a widow having lost her husband nearly at the same time - this seems to be both a marriage of convenience and of love.Seeing that his son is still inconsolably mourning his late mother, Pierre fails to muster the courage to talk to the boy about his plan. Instead, he sends the boy away with his friend, the village's priest, when the priest is visiting the neighbouring valley for a few weeks, and puts the burden to break the news to the child on the priest.When the boy comes back home, he is intensely looking forward to see his sister and his father again and at the same time very curious what may have changed at home. Unfortunately, Arlette, the daughter of his new mother, of about the same age as Jean, is alone at home when the boy comes back. Apparently, she fails to recognize the him, she refuses to open the door to him and is slow, even reluctant to understand her error. When she finally opens the door, he is enraged and arrogant and she is quite intimidated. Thus, they start mistrusting and disliking each other from the first.Jean soon finds out that, during his absence, he has been treated with astonishing lack of respect. Arlette is now using his room, and his parents have assigned another room to him, Arlette is using part of his toys, and there are several other...