A playground in Amsterdam-West serves as a refuge for children whose home lives are marked by neglect, conflict, or abuse. The film follows the pedagogical counselors who staff the space day to day, watching how they talk with kids who arrive angry or withdrawn and how they steer that energy toward something workable. There is no narrator explaining the theory behind the work; instead the camera stays close to the small exchanges, a counselor crouching to a child's level, a dispute on the climbing frame getting talked through instead of punished, that make up the actual job. The playground functions less as recreation than as informal therapy, a fixed place kids can return to when nothing else at home is fixed. The film stays local and specific, one site, one team, one neighborhood, rather than generalizing about child welfare policy, and that narrowness is what lets the counselors' daily methods come through clearly.