Picking the Dawn(2011)
The story of short film "Picking Down" is about an old woman and a child who lives in an abandoned village. The boy is lonely for days and longs for a playmate. Meanwhile, the sleeping grandmother will die soon and asked her grandson, who lives in another village, to bring her a shroud...
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