Plot Summary:"Immigrant" is the coming of age story of Daanyik, a nine year-old Russian boy, whose family immigrates to the United States in the late nineteen-seventies to pursue the American Dream. Daanyik's childhood of pencil drawings and toy soldier battles in Moscow is interrupted overnight as he is hurled into the harsh reality of adulthood in New York City. Upon losing his father Deema, Daanyik and his mother, Meela, are left poor, alone and helpless in a foreign land. Out of desperation for survival, Meela begins a relationship with Tolik, an abusive man that may have had a hand in Deema's death. Daanyik finds himself trapped in a precarious web of torment brought on by his new stepfather, a lecherous Rabbi and a neighborhood bully. Drawing becomes his only source of comfort and catharsis. As his battles grow fiercer, Daanyik, at the tender age of nine, is left to overcome insurmountable odds to save himself and his mother from complete destruction.
更像是一部纪录片，世界上再阳光灿烂的地方一样有阴暗的角落，弱势群体的环境更原始……其实这样艰难的环境就在我们的身边不远处，也许更多的温床里长大的孩子们真的很难理解...
在看的过程中我想这应该美国人拍的片吧？将战斗民族塑造成这样的形象。看到结尾发现这是导演的自传性电影，实在是拍得不怎么样啊。封面是导演本人，豆瓣剧情简介是错的。