Following the tragic death of their five-year-old son Frankie, Irish couple Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their remaining two offspring, 10 year old Christy Sullivan and 5 year old Ariel Sullivan, emigrate illegally to the United States via Canada with little in their pockets. Their final destination is Manhattan where Johnny hopes to work as a stage actor. They move into a unit in a run town tenement housed primarily with drug addicts, transvestites and one tenant coined “the man who screams”. They do whatever they can to eke out a supportive family environment in this difficult situation, the support which ultimately extends to those around them, most specifically “the screamer” who turns out to be an African-American artist named Mateo with AIDS. But the memory of Frankie hangs over the family in good and bad ways, especially as Sarah learns she’s pregnant. Christy, who records their life’s goings-on with her beloved camcorder, believes that the angel of Frankie has granted her three wishes, which she guards until absolutely needed.
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在他们五岁的儿子弗兰基不幸去世后，爱尔兰夫妇约翰尼和莎拉·沙利文以及他们剩下的两个孩子，10岁的克里斯蒂·沙利文和5岁的阿里尔·沙利文，通过加拿大非法移民到美国，口袋里几乎没有钱。他们的最终目的地是曼哈顿，约翰尼希望在那里当一名舞台演员。他们搬进了一个私自经营的城镇公寓的一个单元，里面主要住着吸毒者、易装癖者和一个房客创造的“尖叫的男人”。在这种困难的情况下，他们尽其所能来维持一个支持性的家庭环境，这种支持最终延伸到他们周围的人，尤其是“尖叫者”，他原来是一位名叫马特奥的非裔美国艺术家，患有艾滋病。但对弗兰基的记忆无论好坏都笼罩着这个家庭，尤其是当莎拉得知她怀孕的时候。克里斯蒂用她心爱的摄像机记录下了他们的生活，她相信弗兰基的天使已经实现了她的三个愿望，她一直守护着这三个愿望，直到绝对需要。
United States美国; 美利坚合众国; 依宪法而联合起来的州的总称
final destination最终目的地
work as当; 担任; 担任…工作
move into搬入，迁入
drug addicts吸毒者;瘾君子; drug addict的复数
eke out使供应持久; 节约使用
difficult situation困难的局势
