« Allow the child time and space to live his childhood » is the motto of La Madeleine des enfants, a daycare nursery in downtown Geneva. Everyday, from 7am to 7pm, more than a hundred children are accompanied towards individual autonomy and collective life by a team of fifty professionals. The film is a year immersion behind these stone walls to explore how first steps in society are made, how this small world reflects and reacts to the one outside, how a whole institution struggles to allow children the space and time to live their childhood.