The members of a family are playing just outside their house, in a bucolic and deserted landscape. A few meters away there is half-built freeway, a project that is 10 year behind schedule, a wide and ominous concrete monster invading the garden. Finally, one summer day, the E57 freeway is inaugurated. Urban invasion begins: violent noises, pollution and filth. Sustained by the fragile mother, the family members try to save, at first, their idyllic home and finally themselves. They project their own neuroses into the freeway, denying the world that appears before their own eyes, disconnecting themselves from reality. Combining satiric, dramatic and even suspenseful elements, Meier’s film is a contemporary fable that deals with alienation and which finally becomes, in the own director’s words, an inverse road movie in which we discover that not all movement, no matter how vertiginous, necessarily implies a journey.