Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
虽然最后两个爸爸分开了，但是这部剧让我想到了那个错换人生那件事儿，可能是因为这俩情况不一样，这里面妈妈会时不时的来看他们，而错换人生的妈妈彻底放弃了自己的孩子 唉 现实往往比电影更残酷
照亮童年，为爱发光！七个导演七部短片，都十分令我动容。《蒯老伯的糖水铺》里面细节满满，声音设计上十分惊喜，听着很是亲切。《小火车》咋一看人物设计上有些许不“好看”，但越是进入到故事里头，越是觉得美术上好呀。与好友在这篇故事里相视一哭，啊哈哈。《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》也是本电影里面最让人思考良多的篇章，像散文，真的很美。感谢中国动画人的付出！
《翼娃子的星期天》尤其好，简简单单就勾勒出了众生百态
向法国绘本动画精神靠拢。更喜后三个，《哼将军和哈将军》最有创意，《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》和《翼娃子的星期天》关照了农村和城市外来人口的底层亲情群像。
希望能看到更多这样真诚有趣，老少咸宜的国产动画，7的乡音听着想起了小时候，落泪了。
《小兔的問題》：★★★；《螢火蟲女孩》：★☆；《小火車》：★★★★；《蒯老伯的糖水鋪》：★★★；《哼將軍和哈將軍》：★★★☆；《外婆的藍色鐵皮櫃輪椅》：★★★☆；《翼娃子的星期天》：★★★。影像比故事更出色，《螢火蟲女孩》在其中爛成了一顆老鼠屎。
无论多么复杂和微妙的组合，家人就是家人，爸爸和妈妈，爸爸和爸爸，同性结婚和同性离婚，代孕无血缘关系的儿子，同性家庭的孩子不一定就是同性恋，异性家庭的孩子也有可能是同性恋，没有什么是不正常的，也无须定义正常。
部分有点子沉重。
翼娃子，餐桌上菜场下写作业的孩子，在学校时还时不时教一教餐馆老板的孩子，会请我们一盒冰红茶，3.5/5
对于面向3、40岁人群的故事来说，台本还是偏低幼了。只剩下欣赏画风了
有不起眼却互相关照的街坊情：《蒯老伯的甜水铺》，
内容还是过于浅薄直白 中有两章如暗芝居般让人不寒而栗 唯一亮点是火眼金睛喵喵兽 可爱😸
喜欢第五个故事。但，是啥冲昏头脑的诱惑让你们决定搞个电影出来的啊……不符合市场逻辑啊，也不符合电影逻辑啊……
我确实难以理解。感情出了问题就先解决问题，无法解决就分开，然后你就去随便爱吧。所以为什么要出轨？wtf，什么不是一个人的错，情感上可能是双方都有问题，但是行动上可不就是出轨方一个人的错吗？真逗。（整体看得还算开心，挺好笑的耶！）
成功跻身入驻我的Favorite List//ost一流//浴室那场戏应该是最好笑的part没错了，后半段剧情螺旋拐弯反转，到底谁是亲爹的紧张感营造的很好//最特别的地方是片头片尾的呼应，以家庭纪实纪录片作业为引子并成功回收开头，ending speech真挚又催泪//意大利人的生活没有drama可能会死吧，总而言之是《周日夜，雨》打出的重磅五星好评！
感謝蒲蒲蘭和熊貓大大，終於在下著2022初雪的這天看上了中國首部原創繪本改編的動畫電影《向著明亮那方》。七個小故事或鬧騰，或溫柔，或幽默，或深刻，展現了國人的愛與美，也引發了我們對人情的思考，對家庭與愛的表達，對故人的追憶之情。希望今年除夕時分大家都能與家人團聚在一起，畢竟“家“裡總會有個人在問「到哪兒了？」
这部电影是讲述着同性的，两人之间摩擦出的火花，带点欢乐在里面是蛮有意思的，其他的我也不多说了
比较幽默的叙事，但有些部分感觉有点多余想快进….
3星给形式尝试，但说真的，国内绘本创作真不行，多是成人视角，还有些是作者儿时记忆，差距太大了
还有哼哈二将也很可爱
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