The name of this movie, Alice in the Cities in English, pretty much sums it up. Alice's mother meets a man, an aspiring writer, in New York, and ends up sending ten-year-old Alice to Amsterdam with him. Much of the movie consists of their stay in Amsterdam; in hotels, cafes, trains stations, on the road.

Deep parallels to Alice in Wonderland aren't apparent. The cities aren't much of wonderlands to Alice, whose attitude is mostly unimpressed throughout. The plot is almost nonexistent, and prior to appearance of Yella there's nothing much worth seeing. The picture is black and white, and very soft, looking as if made in the 50's rather than 70's. Yella is expressive, beautiful, and a fine actress, so well fills the void left by the lacking plot.