Moeyaert, Bart

In three episodic scenes of their family life, a fifteen-year-old girl describes the troubled interrelationships, alternating between love and hate, between herself and her siblings and their self-absorbed, neglectful, and often absent mother.

In Belgium in 1939, with his brother serving in the military, young Bing asks his older neighbor, Dani, to repay a debt by teaching him to play soccer, but Dani refuses and sets Bing and his friend Lenny on a course for revenge.

An attractive young puppeteer's visit to a small European village inspires fourteen-year-old Susanna to try to solve a neighborhood dispute over noisy dogs.

A boy confronts his mother's suitor on New Year's Eve when the boy kills the man's duck and, in a fit of anger, the man kills the boy's dog.

Bart Moeyaert recounts the adventures and misadventures he had as the youngest of seven brothers growing up in Belgium in the late 1960s and early 1970s.