影片根据导演布莱克周遭的真实故事改编，此前曾改编为一部同名短片。影片描绘曼德薇饰演的年轻母亲，努力拯救她14岁的儿子，使其脱离全国性的毒品销售企业。迪金森则饰演一个专门利用脆弱少年，并将他们带到英国县界的帮派招募人员。

　　布兰大妈（布兰·巴里奥斯饰）的丈夫突然去世，家里原本就是揭不开锅的状态，这下陷入更深的悲痛。可是考虑到政府的福利政策，大妈决定把丈夫的尸体隐藏两天再去申报死亡。女儿玛利亚（玛利亚·莱昂饰）配合大妈的主意对外隐瞒，闹出不少笑泪横飞的的轶事。

　　电影讲述了上世纪九十年代的哈萨克小镇，四个少年各自的生命之路。扎哈拉斯正在备受父亲的煎熬，后者因曾是一个诈骗犯而找不到工作，为了帮助父亲，他不得不在玉米加工厂打工。巴拉潘有一把好嗓子，能够将“万福玛丽亚”唱的娓娓动听，然而校园生活教会他的是使用自己的拳头而不是声音。扎哈巴则在流浪在村子里的垃圾堆中，寻找可以卖的废金属，他与其他三名同龄离家出走的男孩子睡在废弃的隧道中。阿斯兰正在为医药学努力，然而当他说服自己的女朋友堕胎之后，他的人格发生了彻底的改变。　　A godforsaken Kazakh village in the mid-1990s where four youths are trying to find their way in life. Zharas suffers because his father, an ex-con, cannot find a job. To help make ends meet the boy takes on casual work at a corn merchant’s. Balapan can sing ‘Ave Maria’ as clear as a bell but his schoolmates provoke him into using his fists rather than his voice. Zhaba roams about the village ruins looking for waste metal he can sell. He comes across three bedraggled boys of his own age who have run away from a nearby home and are sleeping in a derelict tunnel. Aslan is about to take up studies in medicine but, after having persuaded his girlfriend to have an abortion, he undergoes a complete change in personality. After scoring a hit with his first film Harmony Lessons, which screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 2013, Emir Baigazin’s new work The Wounded Angel describes the mood of teenagers growing up in a time of great upheaval. The film marks the second part of a visually stunning trilogy about young people and their complex relationships in a world without a moral yardstick. berlinale 2016

一名丛林向导被原住民部落绑架，想把他献祭给白犀牛神，就当他小命要不保时，他突然跌入时光隧道，来到一群野蛮黑发女统治的国家，她们会奴役金发姐妹。他拒绝卡莉皇后的求欢，转而站在金发妞那一边，这也造成他被囚禁起来。