艾米鲁是一个身段消瘦的小男孩，他和街上此外男孩一样，全日在波斯湾海滩上拾甁子、捡破烂，来换取生计所需。在他们生存的这片戈壁里，有火车通过。追赶火车成了这些孩子们的一个合营的游戏。他们听到火车到来的声音，就会放下手中的对象，奋力往追，追偏激车，追过伙伴。艾米鲁在很小的时辰就已经晓得了生存的意义，他知道，假如想要生存得好，…

This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make …