Siddieqa, Firdaus, Abdallah, Soelayman, Moestafa, Hawwa and Dzoel-kifl

The day starts with frying an egg. Today, Soelayman makes an omelette with fish morsels. Hawwa builds a small dam in the swamp. Further down, Dzoel-kifl is stuck in the mud. Abdallah tests the inner tube of his bicycle in a wheelbarrow with ice-cold water. Moestafa takes a sip of Coke and a bite of snow. He has already made his rounds of the property. Big heaps of sand have been dumped. They will head for them shortly. Siddieqa, Firdaus, Abdallah, Soelayman, Moestafa, Hawwa and Dzoel-kifl are seven children from a native Dutch family that lives according to the Islamic faith. The youngest child is three, the eldest fourteen. They live a stone's throw from Amsterdam, on the edge of a squatted dock area. The film follows the children in their explorations of this rough terrain, which is now being prepared for building office blocks. Every day, the untamed children undertake an inimitable exploratory expedition. They build huts, strip a caravan, find a tree. One day, they set out to pay a visit to the candy and snack shelves of the petrol station, the first symbol of civilisation. The children grow up very freely. Resourcefully, they give new meaning to their games; unconstrained, they find their way. But their autonomy is counterbalanced by the real danger of exclusion. The film is, more than a critical exposition, an ode to the poetry of the absurd.