Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days wandering the streets where he is lured by a gang to commit crimes. Fortunately, Du has a heart of gold.

Alicia is a 42-year-old-woman whose grief has caused her estrangement from society. Her world is turned upside down when 14-year-old Chief, a young boy who looks after people’s cars, stumbles into her house, bleeding.

This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evident in their successive display of their toys. Their rivalry (a kite shot down by a toy rifle, for example) concludes with the opposition between the world of noise (the toys inside the house) and that of music (the street child's flute).

Saroo, de cinco anos de idade, perde-se num comboio que se afasta de casa e da família. Assustado e desnorteado, acaba a milhares de quilómetros de distância, na caótica Calcutá, na Índia. Por milagre, ele sobrevive a viver pelas ruas e acaba por ser adotado por um casal australiano, reencontrando o amor e a segurança. Anos mais tarde, um encontro casual com uma comunidade indiana reaviva todo o seu anseio. Com apenas algumas mas bem vivas memórias, e a ajuda da nova tecnologia chamada Google Earth, Saroo embarca na maior missão da sua existência.