A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, after she wanders away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. However, child-like and adult activity prove frequently at cross-purposes.
