Детский поезд

Neapolʹ, 1946 god. Semiletniĭ Amerigo saditsi͡a v poezd i pokidaet svoĭ gorod vmeste s tysi͡achami drugikh deteĭ. Rebi͡atishki uezzhai͡ut bez rodnykh neizvestno kuda, ostavli͡ai͡a zdesʹ khotʹ i nishchenskoe, no privychnoe sushchestvovanie. Im strashno i oni stroi͡at samye otchai͡annye i uzhasnye predpolozhenii͡a. Na samom dele deti s i͡uga Italii peresekut vesʹ poluostrov i provedut zimu v priemnykh semʹi͡akh na severe strany, v teple, sytosti i, kak okazalosʹ, v li͡ubvi. Vdali ot mamy i rodnykh pereulkov Neapoli͡a Amerigo vidit sovsem drugui͡u zhiznʹ, i ona sulit emu luchshui͡u doli͡u. Kakoĭ putʹ on vyberet, razryvai͡asʹ mezhdu li͡ubovʹi͡u k materi i priemnoĭ semʹeĭ?

Naples, 1946. Seven-year-old Amerigo gets on a train and leaves his city along with thousands of other children. The children leave without relatives, it is not known where, leaving here, albeit a beggarly, but habitual existence. They are scared and they make the most desperate and terrible assumptions. In fact, children from the south of Italy will cross the entire peninsula and spend the winter in foster homes in the north of the country, in warmth, satiety and, as it turned out, in love. Away from his mother and his native streets of Naples, Amerigo sees a completely different life, and it promises him a better life. Which path will he choose, torn between love for his mother and foster family?