Lion
In 1986, five-year-old Saroo, a young boy from a rural village in India, becomes separated from his older brother, Guddu, at a train station. After falling asleep on an empty train, he awakens to find himself hundreds of miles away in Calcutta, a city where he does not speak the local Bengali language. Unable to find his way home or communicate his origins, Saroo endures homelessness and various dangers before being placed in an orphanage and subsequently adopted by an Australian couple, Sue and John Brierley, who raise him in Tasmania. Twenty-five years later, as an adult living in Melbourne, Saroo is haunted by fragmented memories of his past and the guilt of his family's loss. Prompted by friends and a desire to understand his identity, he begins an exhaustive search for his birth family using Google Earth, meticulously scanning satellite images of India for familiar landmarks that match his childhood recollections. After months of searching, he miraculously identifies his hometown and embarks on an emotional journey back to India, where he eventually reunites with his birth mother and siblings, who had never given up hope of his return.
