Father, mother and their three children live in a large house surrounded by a high fence. The children, who have never left home, know only as much about the world as their foster parents tell them. So they believe that the planes flying over the house are toys, the cats are bloodthirsty monsters and the zombies are yellow flowers. When Kristina, a girl from the outside world, introduces the children to sex and pop culture, they are eager to go beyond the fence. The film became a festival favourite, winning an Oscar in the foreign film category, and international recognition for the director and the then small but ambitious wave of Greek cinema known as the Weird Wave.