The Heart Remembers

Twelve-year-old Ko Bo Bo lives with his uncle U Ba in Kalaw, a town in Burma. An unusually perceptive child, Bo Bo can read people-s emotions in their eyes. This acute sensitivity only makes his unconventional home life more difficult: His father comes to visit him once a year, and he can hardly remember his mother, who, for unclear reasons, keeps herself away from her son. Everything changes when Bo Bo discovers the story of his parents- great love, which threatens to break down in the whirlwind of political events, and of his mother-s mysterious sickness. Convinced that he can heal her and reunite their family, Bo Bo decides to set out in search of his parents.