8岁的女孩米勒刚搬到小镇上，她希望能在露营前交到新朋友，但不怎么顺利。不过在家，倒是和新房间里的小老鼠交上了朋友。露营时也带上了老鼠，也正因为肖老师，米勒交到了几个朋友，但他们却不小心让老鼠被猫头鹰抓跑了……一行人到野外寻找猫头鹰的唾余，希望能捡回老鼠的骨头，经历了这段冒险，米勒也渐渐了解了友谊的真谛。

　　The action takes place in a grim anarchist future civilization after a big crash or war. A young man, Allan (Bentein Baardson), decides to move out of the city as his family live in. He brings his wife, Lisa ('Petronella Barker'), and the son to a big garbage dump located outside the city. Where they settle and survive on the waste they find on the dump. They are in many ways more closely related to each other by living this way, and Lisa eventually becomes pregnant. But there is a great shortage of water (Sweetwater) and the family of three must go out and look for water. When they discover they are not alone in staying in landfill. It will be a struggle for existence.

　　看似是个完美的家庭，不需要工作的妻子有一个努力工作、风趣热情又顾家的丈夫，而丈夫的真正职业——贩毒却让她很不安。丈夫答应妻子不要把工作带到家庭里来，而情况却变得越来越糟，孩子们开始知道父亲真正的工作。妻子决定带着孩子们离开自己的丈夫，而想要离开却没那么容易。她最终开枪打死了丈夫，开始了新的独立自主的生活，用自己的双手去赚干净的钱。

一部敏感惹火的挪威家庭题材影片，House on the rocks(1974)，影片对母子之性的暴露处理显现着北欧电影的无矩不逾的先锋风味，远胜法国名导路易马勒类似题材的 好奇心 Le Souffle au Coeur (Murmur of the Heart 1971),足让向来乖巧的东方受众大咋其舌。