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Eight-year-old Leo and Lea live in a caravan in an industrial area. Their parents, no longer able to feed them and forced to leave their home which they can no longer afford, decide to abandon them. Thus begins a strange and terrible adventure for the two children.
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The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.

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