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I have mixed feelings about this movie. Two young guys decide to escape their family-lives, which they experience as suffocating and boring. They go on a roadtrip, breaking in into fancy houses where the owners are (presumedly) away. Gradually we see how relatively innocent fun changes to more serious criminal behavior, and how their difference in character and attitude causes mutual distrust and collisions.

It is very hard to relate to these boys. Their backgrounds remain so sketchy, that I could hardly understand their anger and rebelliousness, while their behavior during the whole movie is erratic (to say the least) or downright obnoxious. At many times both (especially Bert) seem to have serious pathological anger- (and other) issues, but these never get enlightened. At the end there is a moving climax, and then a short epilogue, both scenes seem to indicate some kind of positive Werdegang. But to me this came a bit out-of the blue, the movie nowhere made this supposedly positive ending understandable or a logical conclusion.

On the other hand I was very impressed by both young actors (Martin Nissen and Arthur Buyssens), who each did a phenomenal job and were totally convincing in their complicated roles. For that alone this movie deserves a whole lot more attention than the lack of reviewers here on IMDb seems to hint at.