Fifteen-year-old Michiel lives on the route along which the starving Westerners travel in the hunger winter 1944-1945 in search of food. In the beginning, Michiel is more of a spectator, but gradually he becomes more and more involved in the underground work, partly because neighbor Dirk one day tells him a secret about an assignment from the resistance. As a result, he is faced with dangerous assignments. From that moment on, Michiel can no longer confide in anyone.