This ground-breaking cinéma-vérité classic documents five weeks in the lives of twelve residents of a home for emotionally disturbed children. It is the first in the form that King later described as actuality drama. All the action is spontaneous and undirected, with neither interviews nor narration. The theme is the outrage of life. The children asked the filmmakers, Why is it that whenever pictures of us are put in the papers, our faces are blacked out. What is so awful about us that we cant be seen? They wanted to be filmed so that they could be seen.

Le cinéaste expose les traitements expérimentaux dispensés à 12 enfants atteints de troubles affectifs dans l’établissement de Warrendale, près de Toronto. Cet établissement, d’abord considéré comme novateur, s’est rapidement retrouvé au cœur de plusieurs controverses.

1965년에 문을 연 캐나다 온타리오 주의 아동보호시설 ‘워런데일’. 감독은 감정 조절에 어려움을 겪는 12명의 아이들과 이들을 돕는 상담가들의 삶을 7주간 생생하게 기록한다.

Crónica de siete semanas sobre la vida de doce niños con trastornos emocionales, y el método experimental de tratamiento llevado a cabo en las instalaciones del centro Warrendale, en Toronto.