在这部冬冬的圣诞节短片片中,在福建的一个小渔村里，人们世世代代以捕鱼为生，成为渔民似乎是一出生就被安排好的宿命。少年冬冬亦然，他只能不情愿地追随着父亲，学习如何成为一个合格的渔民。无限向往着西方世界的冬冬渴望在圣诞夜得到一双新的篮球鞋，可是父亲却无法满足他的愿望。“中国人过什么圣诞节？”文化与时代的隔阂无情地冲击了这个单亲渔民家庭。在无情现实与华丽‘美国梦’的双重打压下，渔村少年选择了消失。冬冬去哪了？父亲走上了他的寻子之路。
In the recently westernized Putian area, Dongdong reluctantly follows in his father footsteps, Song, a fisherman working to make ends meet, but with sudden envy and longing for more and something different, he turns to Christmas, a pillar of the American dream. On Christmas eve, he asks his father for new sneakers, hoping that his enthusiasm might make his wishes come true. All he truly wants is to be like his friend, whose parents are wealthy and able to send him to school in America. Song brushes his son's words aside. Seeing as they can barely survive on their meek fishing business, Dongdong's needs have no stake in their lives; the only thing that matters is his ability to take over his father's trade. However, Dongdong, determined to aspire to a greater life than that established and prescribed to him by his father and culture, decides to disappear. Song, deeply loving his son and now regretting his lack of sympathy towards him goes looking for him, but no one has seen him. No one can help him because no one has ever or will ever see him or his son. As fishermen, they are at the bottom of the pecking order, invisible to most, systemically cast aside and doomed to repeat this cycle generation after generation. Has Dongdong escaped this narrow fate or will he come back once he's hungry again?
