A family's peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only meters away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel, and their three children find innovative ways to adapt to their new environment.

Where the wild things are: When Max is sent to bed without supper, he sails off to a world inhabited by weird creatures -- In the Night Kitchen: Mickey is awakened by noises in the night -- Alligators all around: Alligators dance and sing through the alphabet -- One was Johnny: Counting forwards and backwards has never been so much fun -- Pierre: Pierre doesn't care about anything until he meets a hungry lion -- Chicken soup with rice: Chicken soup...

The worldview of Michael Gira, through his life as a globetrotter and his four decades leading Swans, a group that he founded in the noisy and iconoclastic New York underground of the early '80s and that keeps reinventing itself today.