◎简 介 本片讲述了一个小男孩在汽车旅馆长大的故事。当Sam住进汽车旅馆后,他决定在一周内教幼年丧父的Ernest如何成为一个男人…… 13岁的Ernest Chin在高速公路边的下等客栈打着零工。家里人不理解他,正值青春期的Ernest孤立无助. 于是和有点自暴自弃但又很有魅力的韩国住客Sam Kim交上了朋友. Sam给予这没爹的孩子父亲般的温暖, 教会他如何长大成人.Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.