故事发生在七十年代末期的日内瓦，暗影来自比利时的艾迪（贝诺特·波尔沃尔德 Benoît Poelvoorde 饰）因为行骗锒铛入狱，暗影当他好不容易熬完了他的刑期时，已经年逾四十了。出狱后没多久，艾迪就遇到了他从前的朋友，朋友收留了无家可归的艾迪，但作为交换条件，艾迪必须担负起照顾他年仅7岁的小女儿萨米拉（Séli Gmach 饰）的责任，因为萨米拉的母亲目前正在生病住院之中。圣诞节将至，四处都洋溢着浓烈的节日气氛，艾迪再也无法忍受贫穷而又无望的生活了，他决定重操旧业给自己小赚一笔。电视里传出了影视明星查理卓别林去世的新闻，机敏的艾迪从中发现了商机。
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回复 :Natty Gann (played by Meredith Salenger) is a twelve year old Depression era girl whose single-parent father leaves her behind in Chicago while he goes to Washington State to look for work in the timber industry. Natty runs away from the guardian she was left with to follow Dad. She befriends and is befriended by a wolf that has been abused in dog fights, hops a freight train west, and is presumed dead when her wallet is found after the train crashes. Dad gets bitter and endangers himself in his new job. Meanwhile Natty has a series of adventures and mis- adventures in various farmhouses, police stations, hobo camps, reform schools, and boxcars.
回复 :朝子（上户彩 饰）生活在一个不完整的家庭之中，十七岁的她早早就失去了对未来的幻想和希望，同时对上学充满了厌恶。一天夜里，朝子趁着家人睡觉的时候将房间里的所有东西都丢到了垃圾场，同时，她决定不再去学校上课了。数良（神木隆之介 饰）外表看似单纯无辜的小学生，实际上却要远比同龄人来的成熟的多。一次偶然中，数良在垃圾场捡到了朝子丢弃的电脑，他将电脑带回家，连上了互联网，竟然在网上开始经营色情女郎聊天室的生意。某日，数良找到了朝子，因为数良要上学，所以他的聊天室在白天无法正常营业，因此他委托不上学的朝子代替自己和客户聊天，朝子答应了。
回复 :Residents of a fictional Welsh community share stories and poems of their life in their seaside town.