A middle-class couple are separating and the three kids are to stay with their bossy and resentful mother. Missing their beloved father, the kids run away to look for him – unaware that the baby's carry-cot contains a bag of pure heroin hidden by a street-kid during a police raid.
When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.