In the docufantasy puppet drama, The Heart is a Mirror, a family code is uncovered, deciphered and rewritten. As a circus, marionette universe is woken in a dream, coming to life in the hands of a Deva like puppeteer, a young girl is empowered by her dying grandmother. A foreign film, coproduced in Germany and France by NYU film and puppetry professor Yvette Edery. Unlike any other film you've ever seen.
—Anonymous