There is a baby on the floor. Crying and alone. It doesn’t wear much more than a bodysuit. The space around the baby is trimmed with a red and white ribbon.
A crowd moves over a busy square. Passers-by walk around the red-white ribbon, which was applied there by the one who left the baby. It takes a while before someone is reflected in the square deposit and looks.
The passer -by taps the one next to him and points to the child. They stand for a moment, look at the baby and then at each other. They conclude that someone else should help her. They call an ambulance, photograph the situation and post the photo on social media.
Discussion arises on social media. Is the baby one of us or from the others? Is it perhaps the baby’s own fault, that it is there?
A journalist walks by. He first wants to check whether the baby really exists. But that is difficult, he says. Because of that red ribbon. If you can’t get close, you can’t know what is and what is not true. He also wants to know if the person who left the baby there has a good reason for that. After all, the perspective of the person is just as important as that of the foundling.
Then the baby comes on the news. During the six -hour journal, the presenter reports just before the weather forecast that there is a baby left on a busy square. The ambulance has since arrived, but does not get any further than the edge of the square. The care providers are not allowed to go to the baby.
A politician goes to the square to look. He listens to the howling. He sees that something happens here that does not belong, though. But, he notes, the one who left the baby here is perhaps an important business partner for my country. In mind he wishes the baby strength and continues.
Some passers -by want to pick up the baby, but don’t dare. They start an online money collection campaign and thus first pick up hundreds, then thousands and then hundreds of thousands of euros from all over the world. Trucks full of food, medicines and hot clothes for the baby drive to the square. In a traffic jam they stand still behind the ambulance.
Another politician calls on not to leave the baby alone for any longer and to take action against the person who put the baby there. A number of members of his political party then cancel their membership.
A growing group of people gathered around the square and citizens who also protest in other cities. They demand that someone really helps the baby now. Politics intends to pay attention to this requirement. After the summer break, the parties are planning a debate about whether there should be an investigation into the baby.
The baby continues to cry. Just until the sound gets used and nobody hears it anymore. And then the crying stops.
Sezen Moeliker Replaces Frits Abrahams.