A hyperactive young boy navigates family life and primary school as both he and his surroundings attempt to make sense of his restlessness and uncontrollable imagination.
When they are confronted with the disease of the pater familias, all members of the Liefhebber family have to face their fears, faults and their troubled interrelationships.
The classroom is astonished when their teacher tells them his big secret: sometimes he turns into a frog. Two kids see it as their task to protect his secret.. and to keep him out of the beak of a stork.