When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver's abil...。偏僻的半山村住着九岁的丁保健和他多病的母亲。一天,保健的母亲死了,村长决定让保健吃百家饭。不久村长被告知保健外出打工的父亲死于艾滋病,并要求他保密。一次记者的采访捅出了保健的病情,村民拒绝保健和他们的孩子一起上学。上级领导要来检查工作,为了应付检查,村长找到村里的闲人老赵先给保健代几天课。谁知领导不来了,可这仅有一老一少的两个人的教室却没有停课……。中年、离异的威尔逊,居住在美国加州奥克兰,孤独的生活使他不由得怀念起过去。。