Mario, a keen birdwatcher, but unable to drive, offers to pay a man he just meet to drive him from Valencia to Romania. Neither of them is aware of the other's story, but a new and definitive journey starts for both of them.
In one fell swoop, nine-year old David Van de Steen lost his mother, his father and his sister in an attack by the Brabant Killers in Aalst. His grandfather, Albert, has the well-nigh impossible task of giving David a new perspective on life, a future.