Two brothers, Zenta and Sanpei, are separated when their father is falsely accused of forgery and arrested. The boys take badly to their separation-one goes so far as to run away with the circus-but after many adventures in the country, they accidentally succeed in proving their father's innocence. These kids have rather more resilience against the winds of family fortunes than the film's title might imply. Shimizu's best-known film is typical of his work in that it is shot on a variety of outdoor locations, and looks at children almost to the exclusion of the adults. "Shimizu was not interested in child psychology...nor was he interested in making this world a microcosm of the adult world...He was interested only in the child's world, as seen by the child. If the result was an implied criticism of the traditional adult world, so much the better...There was a quality about his films which a director like Jean Vigo would have much admired." (Donald Richie) The further adventures of Zenta and Sanpei are taken up in Four Seasons of Childhood, Shimizu's masterpiece of the thirties (see April 12).