马克斯和里奥跟随母亲露西亚从家乡墨西哥移居到美国她说他们会过上更好的生活她还答应带他们去梦寐以求的迪斯尼乐园现实的情况却是孩子们每天被关在一个破旧狭小的房间里涂鸦等待精疲力尽的妈妈下班归来导演根据自身经历改编描绘了一幅疏离而忧伤的童年画卷以敏感而审慎的态度勾勒出多元化社会及移民问题的痛点
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction with a few of his parishioners A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson#39;s interference in the scientific treatment of patients, and a mine owner resents Grey#39;s protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result, all seen and described through the eyes and memory of Grey#39;s young nephew John