Clockwork

It's a snowy winter night in the town, and a young apprentice clockmaker is in despair. Tradition holds that each apprentice must design and build a mechanical figure to be added to the town's impressive clockwork. Karl has not even begun work on his design so when a stranger offers him a wondrous piece of clockwork, a knight so intricate, so real, that to pass it off as his own would make Karl forever famous, Karl is ... tempted. However, once Karl accepts the 'gift', there seems to be no stopping the events which unfold like inexorable clockwork in a series of interlocking stories