Nowhere Boy
【我家地下室藏了一個秘密男孩】 人生的變動使一個13歲剛搬家的美國男孩與14歲的敘利亞難民在布魯塞爾意外相遇。
Max 充滿了怨念,因為他最近剛從他熟悉、舒適的美國,搬到了一個他完全不認識的國家比利時,不僅語言、文化不通,他還得強迫適應一所新的學校,最慘的是-被一幫同學霸凌,雖然他完全聽不懂他們在嘲笑什麼,但他很確定他被欺負了!而 Ahmed 則幾乎已經失去了他的全部,全家人參加了敘利亞戰爭,隨後四散逃往歐洲。在他回過神時,他早就跟他最後唯一的家人爸爸走失,並被困在一個未知的城市裡,而他的最後一筆錢和手機全在一個卑鄙的走私商手上。Ahmed 趁著大雨中逃離走私商,在附近的街巷中找到未上鎖的後門,躲進了一個閒置的酒窖避難。
而 Ahmed 躲進的恰好是 Max 最近搬入的房子。意外的友情種子種下並成長茁壯, Ahmed 成了 Max下課之餘的心靈慰藉,而 Max 則為 Ahmed 的生命安全冒險地秘密行動。在此同時的布魯塞爾,對於難民並不怎麼友善,因為一起起的恐怖攻擊,都指向了非法入境的難民是城市安全的破口,使得市民們相當排外。為了幫助 Ahmed 免於恐怖份子的指控而被遣返回動亂不安的敘利亞,Max 與後來認識的同學們一起想辦法,並意外發現了他們所在街區,在70多前竟有驚人相似的歷史,當時的屋主與居民們也合力窩藏了一位逃離大屠殺的猶太難民...
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed is stuck in a city that wants nothing to do with him. Newly arrived in Brussels, Belgium, Ahmed fled a life of uncertainty and suffering in Aleppo, Syria, only to lose his father on the perilous journey to the shores of Europe. Now Ahmed’s struggling to get by on his own, but with no one left to trust and nowhere to go, he’s starting to lose hope.
Then he meets Max, a thirteen-year-old American boy from Washington, D.C. Lonely and homesick, Max is struggling at his new school and just can’t seem to do anything right. But with one startling discovery, Max and Ahmed’s lives collide and a friendship begins to grow. Together, Max and Ahmed will defy the odds, learning from each other what it means to be brave and how hope can change your destiny.