When you live in a rubbish tip and your favourite food is your mum's mouldy soup, life in the city is strange and confusing. Lenny is a boy from a family of barbarians living in a landfill site, who finds himself lost in a strange, sterile world. Although the people he meets are only trying to help him, Lenny can't fit in, so he must make the perilous journey back to the rubbish tip to be reunited with his people.