‘Hush!’ the gypsy cried. ‘There’s nothing to fear.
I’ll take your button in return for your passage home.
A navel’s neither an ear to hear nor an eye to see.
More a tip than a fee, don’t you agree?
When spoilt Mei Ling gets lost in a mirror maze, she gives up her belly button to a gypsy who promises to take her home. Little does she realise that the navel is the bond between mothers and daughters. She returns home to find a stranger has taken her place
