Dutch teenagers Kars and Isa are furious when their eternally-rowing parents decide to move to France and open a campsite there, and the uprooting feels to them like exile in Timbuktu. Luckily, Isa meets motherless half-Dutch boy Jules, who becomes their friend while trying to hide that his dad is a shameful lush and wheeler-dealer. On top of all the family misery, they get involved in dangerous business.