Filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti (Family Portrait Sittings, '75) turns his camera on his three-year-old son and his son's friends in this unusual documentary, affording the viewer a unique opportunity to observe children at play virtually unaffected by an adult presence.

“...There is so much about childhood that we forget or that we distort through nostalgia or sentimentality. I felt, as most parents must, that I was recapturing a bit of this by watching my own child and his friends. I felt now that I should go further, that I should look more carefully at these children and try to capture on film something of what their lives were like....

“...As I began to work, I saw that the most revealing interactions were those between children rather than those between children and adults, and that, given the day-to-day pattern of the children's lives, it would be untruthful to try to impose a narrative line on the film. The material I was seeing and recording seemed to organize itself spontaneously and repeatedly into scenes. I was reminded of Robert Schumann's series of short piano pieces, ‘Scenes from Childhood'...and was encouraged in the idea of constructing the film as a succession of simply filmed and thematically arranged scenes....”