
A 12 year-old street kid in a slum of Berlin struggles to stay afloat through a commitment to his compassionate teacher and ambivalent classmates, aged 11-14, who also bear the harsh marks of impoverishment, which manifest themselves in peer ruthlessness and disrespect of adults.

In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinme...

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, ...

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is tak...