"The Life of Zucchini" is a clay cartoon about the children of the orphanage who yearn for family and love. The plot is not complicated, but it is a warm story...
After the death of his father, the nine-year-old boy Zucchini has been relying on his mother who has been drinking and getting drunk all day. One day his mother fell down the stairs while drunk and fell to her death, and the zucchini was completely orphaned.
Mr. Police sent him to the orphanage, where he met many strange-looking friends and kind-hearted teachers.
The child of the orphanage, Simon Wang, took the kite, which symbolizes Zucchini's father, to play. Zucchini fought with Simon in anger.
After this conflict, Simon and Zucchini had an in-depth chat, and Zucchini also learned about the poor life experiences of the friends in the orphanage: Zaozi's mother has obsessive-compulsive disorder, Alice's father has a pedophile, Ahmed's His father was robbed and imprisoned, Biya's mother was smuggled and deported, and Simon's own parents took drugs... The experience of being connected to life has brought him closer to his friends.
In the orphanage, the little friends have classes together, eat together, and chat about heart-beating and blushing topics together at night. It all makes the zucchini feel fresh.
Zucchini wrote a letter to Mr. Police by drawing, telling him about the situation in the orphanage. And Mr. Police also visits the zucchini on weekends.
In the orphanage, it was quite a joy to have friends with each other. They will ski together, build snowmen, have snowball fights, dance... but they still yearn for their parents' love. Seeing other children with their mothers is both envious and sad.
As soon as Biaches heard the sound of the car, he ran out to make sure his mother was coming. Simon didn't dare to open the letter sent by his mother, and was very disappointed when he found that there were only mp3 and no message...
One day, another ten-year-old lovely girl, Camille, came to the orphanage. Camille was sent by her aunt, and it seemed that Camille didn't like her aunt very much. Camille's arrival aroused everyone's curiosity and interest. Zucchini is even more in love with this strong and beautiful girl.
Simon and Zucchini peek at Camille's files and learn that Camille's dad killed her mom by mistake. And the bad-hearted aunt wants to gain custody of Camille for child support.
In order to avoid the weekend meeting with her aunt, Camille sneaked into Mr. Police's car. Mr. Police had no choice. After notifying the head of the orphanage, Camille and Zucchini spent a happy weekend together.
But at night, he was forcibly taken away by the aunt who rushed to the policeman's house. Aunt Camille insulted and threatened Camille, which was recorded by Camille with Simon's mp3, and finally got rid of her aunt's threat and control in front of the judge.
Happy Halloween everyone to celebrate together.
Even happier, on this day, Mr. Police decided to adopt Camille and Zucchini. Since then, Zucchini and Camille have a home. Zucchini wrote to Simon, telling him that he had not forgotten everyone in the orphanage, and that the children of the orphanage were loved and cared for.
A warm ending.
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