Seven parallel stories of children, making their way to school and back home, interweave into a cinematic poem about childhood. Alone, between the parent and the teacher, danger and curiosity, dependence and independence, children experience life unprotected and unrestricted. In the gap between the familiar and the unpredictable, between the trivial and the traumatic, the film traps pure and irreversible bits of time. The playful, the stressful, the cruel, the magical and the thrilling moments of this daily journey, become a lucid voyage of an illuminating and injuring experience.