One day Radu receives the implacable verdict that he only has a few more months to live. He chooses to run away from death, until exhaustion, finding refuge in a small remote village, where the waiting for death will transform itself into the forgetting of it.。三毛是旧社会的苦孩子,他无依无靠,受尽了折磨,但它又是一个善良的、勇敢的好孩子,他的遭遇就是旧社会千千万万少年儿童的遭遇。三毛走遍上海大街小巷,寻找能暂时得以糊口的营生,更是见遍了世态炎凉……。