Lizzy has some very special pets. Alba the striped owl is her favourite among the four birds of prey and occasionally gets to ride on the handlebars of Lizzy’s bicycle.
Kasper has taken in a young blackbird and nursed it until it was able to fly.
Geertje knows how to box and occasionally teaches boys who make trouble a lesson.
Victor has discovered that he can watch a squirrel from his window.
Whenever Ben spots a cute girl, his nose starts to stickle. This ends in a big sneeze – every time! Ben is ashamed and feels lonely … until that day he notices a cute girl sneezing louder than he has ever heard before.
Ten-year-old Anne Fee lives in the “Thomas-Haus” with her parents and a group of disabled persons. For a party she founds a band with Bob, the poet, and Olivier, who wants to be an actor.
10-year-old Giovanni wants to be the first boy to take part in the Dutch Synchronised Swimming Championship.
Nicu has lived in the streets since he was seven. In Romanian, “Haiduc” means gangster, and that’s how cool he wants to be. But having no family, sleeping in shafts and taking drugs is hard.
Sil and Merlijn want to know what a refugee camp looks like.
The 12-year-old kid we see likes to play football, gets into fights, plays Knock Knock Ginger and aims a toy pistol at ducks. Plainly a “real” boy, nothing special. But Niels used to be a girl called Kyara, and the road to becoming the person he is now was hard.
“Hi Mom, this is Jan.” When the boy wants to tell his mother something, he must record it. He sends her the tapes and sees her very rarely. ...
Jesser loves all plants except sugarcane – working on the plantation has made his father ill.
Naomi has a secret. She rarely sees her mother because the latter lives in a psychiatric hospital.
It’s not easy to find the perfect partner, especially if you’re a bird with an elephant’s voice.
When you’re 14 you want to chat online with your friends and shop for cool gear. Both are out of reach for Ilia who had a good life in Afghanistan before he had to flee from the Taliban.
