Terrible Children is one of Cocteau's key and most complex works, which literary scholars argue about to this day. A multi-layered and multi-level story of a young brother and sister who rejected the "external" world and created for themselves a strange, cruel and beautiful "world of the Children's," existing according to their own laws and rituals. The heroes of the novel - Paul and Elizabeth - have been living by the rules of their own game since childhood, from which nothing can distract them. And, growing up, they continue to live in their world, which is doomed to face the real world...