A 17-minute, black and white film begins silently with fire engulfing a french in May 1940, with townspeople fleeing. The film cuts to Howard Kershner, program director for AFSC and the International Commission for the Assistance of Child Refugees in Spain, who explains the Quaker philosophy and gives a brief overview of the child-feeding program throughout France. The film then focuses on the daily life of children in the La Rouviere children's colony (98 miles from Marseille). The colony was one of several financed and managed by the AFSC.