Childline worker Ivo becomes more and more involved in the problems of commune children Piet and Donnie. Piet is concerned: the murder of commune leader Bert has failed, there are no more clean pants, Piet's mother suffers from depression and a nuclear power plant has exploded in Russia. According to Donnie, it is important that they run away from home as soon as possible, preferably to Belgium, before the radiation from Chernobyl comes to the Netherlands…