Belfast 2022

Summer 1969 in the Northern Irish capital. Nine-year-old Buddy (Jude Hill), son of a typical working-class family, loves going to the cinema, Matchbox cars and his devoted grandparents, and he also has a crush on one of his classmates. But when socio-political tensions escalate in Belfast and violence breaks out even in the otherwise harmonious neighbourhood, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. And while his father working in England and his worried mother try to secure the family's future, Buddy has no choice but to slowly grow up - and still not lose his zest for life, his laughter and his imagination inspired by film and television.