Until the end of the 19th century children between four and eight were used as chimney sweepers. In this allegorical film, a child climbs up a chimney while a bird sails down into it to build a nest. An encounter with no way back. We hear a British chimney sweeper describing his everyday routine - forcing young children to become workers. While we observe a child cleaning a chimney, the master"s statement gets more personal with every sentence, until we understand that he is speaking about his own past.