Weird story setting.
An infertile couple.
But when they had seen all the doctors, tried all the treatments, and still had no way to ask for a child, God suddenly merciful and gave them a little boy out of thin air.
He fulfilled all their fantasies about children.
Except for one thing: he has leaves on his feet.
At first, the couple was overjoyed with the arrival of the child.
They want to be the best parents and give the best to their children; they don't want to repeat the mistakes their parents made.
They were afraid that the child would be particularly bullied, so they desperately tried to erase it. At first, they wanted to cut it off, but when they found that it was unsuccessful, they asked him to cover it with socks.
They are trying hard to get it into mainstream society.
Influenced by the people around them, they also hope that he can become outstanding and have a face for themselves. They also feel ashamed and annoyed when children play football and sit on the bench all the time.
It's all quite different from what they initially envisioned.
Unconsciously, the couple, like most parents, put their dreams and work anxiety on their children.
But this child is an angel.
He hid the truth that he was going to leave from his parents who loved him the most.
Although he was just a passer-by, his arrival made a huge change in the couple's life.
They sang rock 'n' roll at the family house concert.
Mom said something she had never dared to say to her old-fashioned boss.
In order to save the declining pencil factory, they designed and produced a new type of pencil together, which changed the fate of the whole town.
And finally, everyone in the town learned the secret of the leaf on the child's leg.
The family finally reconciled with its own difference.
The conflict between the child and the couple is actually the conflict between the couple itself.
Forbearance against the indifferent boss, powerlessness against the depression of the factory, disgust for the show off of her sister, and anger for the suppression of her father.
The arrival of the child only inspired the contradictions in the parents.
In the end, the child confessed his specialness to the people in the town, and the couple accepted themselves even more, and no longer took the child to compete with the outside world.
This is where they can really be good parents.
But it's also time for the child to leave.
Not a happy ending, but still a bit warm.
Although the child finally left, he collected the fallen leaves piece by piece and gave them to the people he met in his short life.
His final message to the couple wrote:
"I have one thing for you. If someone asks me, the two people I want most in the world, they will do their best, they will make mistakes occasionally, although they can only be with them for a short time. Get together, but they give you more love than you can imagine."
Knowing how to love and be loved is really a very important thing.
We often care about the people around us, but our hearts and eyes are covered by all kinds of negative emotions—vanity, anxiety, fear—and we are hurting them under the guise of caring.
The little boy Timothy in this film is the one who really healed the people around him with his kindness and tenderness.
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