Summary
A frantic domestic odyssey through the labyrinthine housing constraints of the early 20th century, 'No Children' captures a couple’s desperate subterfuge as they navigate an urban landscape hostile to the nuclear family. At the heart of this kinetic farce is a five-year-old clandestine inhabitant, whose very existence threatens the precarious stability of his parents’ tenancy. The narrative transforms a mundane search for shelter into a high-stakes game of hide-and-seek against a vigilant, child-loathing landlady. The choreography of concealment reaches a crescendo of slapstick ingenuity, only to be resolved by a paradoxical stroke of fortune: a diagnosis of chicken-pox. This infectious affliction, usually a parental nightmare, becomes a biological barricade, granting the family a twenty-one-day reprieve from the specter of homelessness. It is a biting, albeit humorous, commentary on the transactional nature of urban living and the unexpected utility of childhood ailments.
Synopsis
The efforts of a couple with a boy of about five years old to find a flat, and the humorous situations that ensue in their attempts to keep the landlady from getting wise. When the child gets chicken-pox, his parents are thankful that they will at least not have to move for twenty-one days.
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