The mischievous Abeltje is no longer welcome at school. He finds work as a lift boy in a department store, but when he presses the forbidden ‘green button’, the lift shoots straight through the roof of the department store, all the way to New York. From there, Abeltje flies with his passengers to Perugona, where a revolution has just broken out.

A Dutch classic brimming with absurd fantasy and the first in a series of successful films based on the work of Annie M.G. Schmidt.