lt was a Summer unlike any other. Sybille promised Mickey one hun-dred kisses before the Autumn. But he only got 73.

This is the story of a beautiful, romantic and very upsetting Summer, somewhere in the East. The Summer of the Eclipse. Fourteen year-old Sybille arrives in this sleepy little town to spend her vacation with Aunt Martha. By the time she leaves, nothing will be the same.

On day one she falls in love like never before: With Alexander, the astronomer who Looks after the old observatory and who is a some-what lonely widower. He is forty-one and thinks Sybille is too young for love.

Equally fast, Alexander's son Mickey, also fourteen, falls for Sybille. He knows she must belong to him - at all cost - but she doesn 't take hinn seriously. And Alexander pretends not to see what is hap-pening.

Sybille is not to be underestimated. lt is as if she has electrified the small town. Everyone feels a mad yearning for love. Illiopolous, the schoolteacher, has a heart-attack whilst with his mistress. And Pjotr, the night-watchman, has a most unfortunate encounter with a weapons-grade steel ring.

The arrival of a French Captain in search of the Sea, and the secret screening of an old Emmanuelle film at the local armaments fac-tory bring things to a head ...

27 MISSING KISSES is a tragicomedy set in a sleepy little town somewhere in Eastern Europe during 'the Summer of the Eclipse'. As the weather grows warmer, the townspeople's thoughts turn to love. The trigger is the arrival of 14-year-old widowed Alexander, and followed by his 14-year-old son, Mickey. Sybille promises the latter 100 kisses, but only delivers 73 (hence the film's title). But that is only the start of the trouble...