Marina plot
"Immigrant who wants a better life."
Italy 1948. Ten-year-old Rocco grows up in a beautiful but poor mountain village in Calabria, until one day his father decides to look for a better future for his family. He leaves for Belgium, to earn money in the coal mines, and then return to his native country. But soon he has his family come over and so young Rocco becomes a migrant overnight. The gray mining area in Limburg, the icy winters, the racism and the foreign language and culture are a damper on the joie de vivre of the little boy. Rocco wants to be like the other children and become someone and mean something in life.