Two young boys, abandoned by their fathers, are trying to make their first important steps in life. Karim is a hooligan, angry with his parents, keen on bullying the weak. 

In the summer of 1994, Marina – a rather unusual nun – arrives at a boarding school for children with no families, which has been threatened with closure. 

Adventurous and funny Sofija (12) is forced to spend her vacation with her overbearing grandmother Maria (67), on an island in Croatia. 

Enaiatollah is nine years old the day his mother decides to leave him alone in Pakistan to save him from the Taliban, who claim him as payment of a debt. 

The first time ten-year-old neighbors Billie and Amina meet, they end up fighting. 

Alì is a 10 years old Afghan boy who lives in a tent city along the port of Patras, Greece. Every day he tries in vain to illegally board the ferry directed to Italy.