6500万年前,一颗小行星与地球擦肩而过,称霸这个世界的恐龙懵懵懂懂地逃过了灭顶之灾。之后又过了数百万年,恐龙的智力得到进化,它们学会种植、畜牧、建筑,并且拥有属于自己的语言和家庭。某座山脚下的平原地带,雷龙一家迎来三个性格各异的娃娃,最小的阿洛(雷蒙德·奥乔亚 Ray mond Ochoa 配音)孱弱胆怯,与父亲的生离死别更在他的心中投下难以磨灭的阴影。一连串的事件过后,他与妈妈、哥哥、姐姐相隔万里。阿洛将这一切都归罪于原始人类的小孩点点(杰克·布赖特 Jack Bright 配音)。而点点似乎不为所动,他主动亲近阿洛,仿佛是一条忠诚勇敢的小狗。
在充满坎坷和危险的回家之路上,阿洛与点点结伴而行,而这两个本不该碰面的恐龙和人类,将缔结超越了种族和时空的纯真友情……
Yiannis doesn’t have much going for him, save for his adorable dog, Jimi, and his fast-approaching date to get out of Cyprus for good. But when Jimi wanders across the U.N. buffer zone and into the section of the island Turkey seized more than forty years ago, an unregulated state unrecognized by the rest of the world, Yiannis learns, bringing a dog back over the border is not as easy as walking straight home. He enlists a mismatched band of accomplices from every side of the Cyprus dispute to find a way to get Jimi back, while never leaving the land he calls home.
Writer and director Marios Piperides has been producing films in Cyprus for more than a decade, and his inside knowledge pays dividends in this narrative feature debut—a whip-smart comedy on legality, disputed nationality, and the frameworks that are erected to maintain a fragile peace. He demonstrates his compassion for locals on both sides of the divide, as he tenderly captures their struggle to find hope and make a living in a divided land. Such serious themes pair perfectly with Piperides’s sense of humor: As Yiannis’s efforts dip farther into absurdity, they offer a send-up of the forces that prolong a conflict that has been poorly understood and largely forgotten by the outside world.