The Little Bird Boy

With his father in jail probably for smuggling alcohol across the barbedwire border Behruz and his family are destitute His love of birds and talent for imitating their songs land him the unhappy job of helping to capture them for a local bird merchant He meets a girl his own age whose mother comes to Iran to sell clothes but they leave before he has a chance to say goodbye Qanbari sticks to images and the childrens plaintive faces old before their time to tell his story almost without words Their delicate emotions are echoed in a local bridegrooms illegal crossing into Azerbaijan for his own wedding