An old man and a young man make their way in the scrap trade on the edge of the city. They can estimate the price of a piece of scrap copper to the penny, but they can’t measure the weight of a person’s heart.
Forced to walk a tightrope between morality and survival, affection and danger, they find that behind the wealth lies an invisible web woven long ago. Some want to pull them to safety, while others want to drag them under.
Watch a speck of dust, insignificant as it may be, drift and struggle in the winds of a changing era, until at last, amid the cold reality, it clutches the one thing that burns bright and belongs to it.