Valérie and Pitou, two ten year old kids, want to leave their parents and run away, because they give them little love. Valérie takes all her saved pocket money and wants buy every single goldfish in Paris to set them free into Seine river, because she thinks a goldfish in an aquarium must be as unhappy as she is.—gnoetgen

Valérie, daughter of a bourgeois family, and Pitou, son of a caretaker, two ten year old kids, want to leave their parents and run away, because they give them little love. Valérie takes all her saved pocket money and wants buy every single goldfish in Paris to set them free into Seine river, because she thinks a goldfish in an aquarium must be as unhappy as she is.—gnoetgen