An adaptation of Iran's award-winning international film Little Shoes. The film tells the story of Ah Kun who accidentally lost his sister's shoes and decided to participate in a cross-country competition, hoping to get the shoes as a prize and give them to his sister. Among them, the connection with friends is the most simple love between children, nostalgia, friendship.
Ah Kun (Li Chuangrui) and his sister Xiaofang live in the Singapore countryside in the 60s, the family life is not rich but the family's feelings are very good, at the beginning of the film Ah Kun goes to help his sister Xiaofang mend shoes, and then goes to the grocery store to make up rice, accidentally lost his sister's shoes. It was my sister's only shoe, and at that time, she couldn't go to school without shoes and would be scolded by the teacher.
The two had to share Ah Kun's shoes. Ah Kun was angry about this, felt sorry for his sister, and tried to help her find shoes. When the two brothers and sisters shared a pair of broken shoes, the sister had to deceive the teacher for various reasons because the shoes were too big, and then she was scolded and suffered a lot of grievances. Ah Kun was repeatedly late for his sister to give him shoes after school, and was also reprimanded by the principal, and almost ordered to withdraw from school.
Ah Kun was punished by the principal for being so often late, and he did not want his classmates to know the reason why he was late every day. Ah Kun loves football and often plays football with other children in the village. They are looking forward to having their own football with their own sneakers. In order to participate in the national competition, they organized a football team in the village. But the people in the team, led by Ming Shun, were jealous of each other and quarreled constantly, and Ah Kun couldn't stand it and quit.
By chance, he learned that the reward for the third place in the cross-country competition was a pair of shoes, and he decided to participate in a cross-country competition, hoping to get shoes as a prize, to give it to his sister, and after the end of the competition, he also tried to ask the principal to sign up for the competition. During the game, Ah Kun was careful not to exceed the first and second places, but in the end he slipped and won the first place.
Ah Kun wants to exchange prizes with Ming Shun, who won the third place, but Ming Shun confirms that he is looking down on him, and in a rage, he throws his shoes down the river and washes away. Ah Kun felt very helpless and helpless and said, "I accidentally lost my sister's shoes and participated in the competition, just to get the shoes back and give them to my sister, that's it." Ming Shun immediately felt guilty
At the end of the film, Ah Kun and his sister sit on the bridge, looking at the shoes in their hands, which they can no longer wear because they participated in the competition. Because Ming Shun was going to study in England, he secretly gave them a pair of shoes and said, "My family has too many shoes, so I didn't know how it was to have no shoes before."
In the film, the brother and sister run together desperately to change shoes to go to school in the agreed place, and are ridiculed and scolded by some people at school; In order to help his sister win a pair of shoes in the competition, the brother ran barefoot in the mud and gravel; My sister also ran barefoot on the road with broken glass in order to find a midwife for her mother who was about to give birth, and I wished that I could immediately give them a new pair of shoes. Our life now, although it is not to say that we want anything or anything, is not to be bothered by a pair of shoes.