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".
《小火车》：向着光亮，走出阴霾。《蒯老伯的糖水铺》：时代在变，不变的是人情味。《哼将军和哈将军》：“水火不容”的两小兄弟，感叹真实。《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》：记忆翻涌，汇成思念。
《小火车》：向着光亮，走出阴霾。《蒯老伯的糖水铺》：时代在变，不变的是人情味。《哼将军和哈将军》：“水火不容”的两小兄弟，感叹真实。《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》：记忆翻涌，汇成思念。
《蒯老伯的糖水铺》，简直是一副世间百态浓缩蜡像馆！在街头巷尾的糖水铺子里，来往穿梭着形形色色的人，他们在世界上奔跑，蒯老伯在糖水铺子里等待着，像是一颗老树看这身旁蓬勃生长的森林，想必他的心里一定也有很多感慨吧！给孩子看这样的动画，才能种下善良的种子！看完影片之后，回家路上孩子一直在叭叭着说饿了，我问他：回家喝芝麻糊，好不好？
《蒯老伯的糖水铺》，简直是一副世间百态浓缩蜡像馆！在街头巷尾的糖水铺子里，来往穿梭着形形色色的人，他们在世界上奔跑，蒯老伯在糖水铺子里等待着，像是一颗老树看这身旁蓬勃生长的森林，想必他的心里一定也有很多感慨吧！给孩子看这样的动画，才能种下善良的种子！看完影片之后，回家路上孩子一直在叭叭着说饿了，我问他：回家喝芝麻糊，好不好？
鸡麻糊，要沿zho碗边，一cong一cong才好吃呐（战术性擦嘴）
——以下有轻微剧透的分界线——
寒冷冬日里的一抹暖阳，绘本的形式很新颖，不仅吸引小朋友，大朋友看的也很有趣。故事是很容易共情，很平淡的方式讲出深刻的道理，很耐人寻味。
喜欢《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》、《翼娃子的星期天》结尾BGM响起的时候 直接泪崩(⸝⸝⸝ᵒ̴̶̥́⌑ᵒ̴̶̣̥̀⸝⸝⸝)生活的火车悬空驶过 驶向更美好的未来
几个章节水平参差不齐，前面半部分简直灾难，粗制滥造的半成品，没有那制作水准就不要立意搞得复杂，小孩子也看不懂吧，后半部分简单生活化反而很不错
没有观众交流就离谱。
第一次在国产动画中看到残疾人还有老人的死亡，就是短片的体量太有限了！
一上来《小兔的问题》就已经泪目了…每个故事都是自己/身边发生的，很温暖治愈，代入感很强！也很能引起共鸣！每篇的画风也是很有代表性，绘本风格不只是小朋友看，成人或许更能在过程中治愈内心的一角。
基于7个原创绘本改编的动画短片集，今天首映。最喜欢其中《蒯老伯的糖水铺》和《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》两个故事，勾起很多回忆 ……
已经很少遇到一部电影，看到中间想站起来为其鼓掌了，幸运的是，我遇到了。
《向着明亮那方》 提前观影蛮好看，准备带家人二刷。
不被故事、戏剧结构等等一系列繁文缛节的东西所束缚，最后呈现出的就是这样一部精品！我觉得把这部动画电影称为平凡生活的礼赞，简直不要太合适！没想到这都2022年了，我还能在电影院里被一个国产的动画片感动的稀里哗啦的。
影片作为国内首部绘本电影，整体观感还是不错的。小朋友应该会很喜欢的，节奏慢慢的，音乐也很好听。听主创说，很多前期准备都是非常耗时耗力的，让所有人惊讶的就是这部作品大家都是摸着石头过河，经验让大众很受用。希望以后可以慢慢多推出治愈系，也适合成年人观看的手绘电影哦👻
手绘本改编的动画作品，童趣、治愈、温暖， 7个篇章外在的画风各异，内里基调倒是一致，巧妙以童谣打油诗串在一起，风格由抽象逐渐走向写实。很久没看到这样回归本真的动画了，非常感动。
今年看过最贴近真实生活的电影居然是一系列动画短片。
对外婆的记忆总是伴随着一块酸酸的六角杨梅 那还是第一次吃杨梅，酸酸的 切开之后晶莹剔透
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