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喬治亞海畔的破陋小屋裡，貧窮男孩雖然天生鬥雞眼，卻有著超齡的早熟眼神，不負責任的母親、備受欺凌的生活，讓他決定出發投靠生父，尋找溫暖的可能。偷竊、傷害、強暴、謀殺，一路上的遭遇宛如殘酷版《四百擊》，看盡人性的醜惡與無奈，當男孩終於回到冰雪紛飛的故鄉，海的這岸迎接他的，會是溫暖的懷抱？或是另一座傷心的廢墟？喬治亞導演以寫實的影像力道，深刻呈現艱苦生存環境如何逼出人性最自私的原形，勇奪西雅圖影展最佳新進導演大獎。

Tedo and his mother were forced to flee their native Abkhazia during the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. His father was seriously ill and had to stay behind. Several years later, Tedo finds it hard to come to terms with his difficult situation and with his life as a refugee. When he comes across his mother with a lover one day, he decides to go back to seek out his father.