In an Arcadian setting, lies a village school - the smallest one in the European Union, boasting a total of five children. Its students have a very realistic world-view and shape their dreams accordingly. They are more like adults than children. Only the five-year-old Christian allows himself to be swept away by imagination, entangled in a spider web of his fantasies. Will the world accept this fragile superhero? In this small student community certain social mechanisms become more visible than in big educational institutions. ‘If I Only Were A Spider’ is a film about the norm rejecting that what is different, and about the differences fighting to stay different.