On his way home from school, an unhappy, lonely eight-year-old boy takes his frustration out on a stake in the woods. One day he suddenly sees another child doing the exact same thing. The two boys become friends: they run through the hills and play war together. But because of his miserable existence this friendship is ill fated.
At night a lonely widow, born and raised in the Dutch East Indies, but now living in the Netherlands, fights off demons from a past she doesn't want to burden her son with.
Floating through outer space, Izidoor desperately awaits delivery of a consignment of ‘beard lichen’, which has to heal mister Le Prince, who is currently in cryostasis.
