A 12-year-old boy comes of age in 1969 Key West against the backdrop of the Apollo moon landing, when he begins to sell cocaine so his mother can stop stripping.

《杀戮战场》和《教会》的两届金像奖摄影大师克里斯．门杰斯，在升任导演后喜欢回到英国故乡执慰一些小品文艺片，本片就是以威尔斯小镇为背景的伦理亲情故事。一位感情高度压抑的邮局局长，为了抒解单身生活的寂寞，他领养了一名十岁的小孩。可是这个孩子也有严重的内心困惑，经常制造麻烦，使他原来规矩的生活为之破坏。经过一段时间相处之后，两人都学会了“退而求其次"的道理。这部生活化的家庭小品整个调子有点苍凉，结束也太唐突，但因演出精彩，看起来还是相当感人的。

Graham Holt is a lonely middle-aged man who runs a postal substation in a small village in England. He decides to adopt a son. James is the troubled youth he gets with the assistance of social worker Debbie. James has been in an orphanage for years since his mother committed suicide. He adores his outlaw father John, sent to prison not long after the mother's death. Can James learn to love Graham? Can Graham settle for being second best?

A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents, and she must piece together what's happening around her when her father disappears one night, barely evading arrest, and, not long after, her mother is detained by the authorities. Some of Molly's White friends turn against her, and her family's friendships with Blacks take on new meaning. Relationships are fragile in the world of apartheid. How will she manage?