Take care of the little riders, says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hours from the clock on the ancient church tower. She would do anything to protect them, anything. And one night she risks her life to prove it.
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