艾米鲁是一个身体瘦弱的小男孩，他和街上别的男孩一样，整日在波斯湾海滩上拾甁子、捡破烂，来换取生存所需。在他们生活的这片沙漠里，有火车通过。追逐火车成了这些孩子们的一个共同的游戏。他们听到火车到来的声音，就会放下手中的东西，奋力去追，追过火车，追过同伴。艾米鲁在很小的时候就已经懂得了生活的意义，他知道，如果想要生活得好，就要努力奋斗。这种生活的感悟就是来自于他追火车的乐趣中。整个过程就是赛跑，和火车赛跑，和别人赛跑，追逐并且超越了，就可以获取更好生活的能量。为了达到这种目标，艾米鲁努力学习知识，在艰苦的生存环境下奋力挣扎。逆境求生和学习成长成为了他最熟悉的两种比赛。《奔跑的亚军》（?????）是一部于1984年上映的伊朗电影，由阿米尔·纳得瑞执导。影片的编剧是Behrouz Gharibpour和Amir Naderi。主要演员包括Abbas Nazeri、Majid Niroumand和Musa Torkizadeh。影片讲述了一个关于追求梦想和自由的故事。故事发生在伊朗乡村的贫困环境中。主人公是一位年轻的男孩，他渴望成为一名职业赛跑运动员。尽管面临着贫困、社会压力和家庭困境，但他决心通过奔跑来实现自己的梦想。影片通过真实而深刻的描绘，展现了主人公的决心、毅力和勇气。他不断克服困难和挑战，不仅要面对自身的身体限制，还要应对来自外部环境的阻碍。然而，他的坚持和努力最终使他成为一名杰出的运动员，并赢得了他所渴望的荣誉和自由。《奔跑的亚军》以其真实、感人和鼓舞人心的故事而广受赞誉。导演阿米尔·纳得瑞通过电影展现了对个人自由和追求梦想的强烈追求，同时也反映了社会的不公和压迫。影片通过细腻的表演、优美的摄影和动人的音乐，营造出一种深情和富有情感的氛围。《奔跑的亚军》是一部扣人心弦的电影作品，通过真实而动人的故事，向观众传递了关于坚持、勇气和自由的重要信息。它提醒人们，在逆境中坚持自己的梦想，并为自己的价值和尊严而奋斗。这部影片在国内外都获得了广泛的认可，并被视为伊朗电影的经典之作。

This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs.　　This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal.　　The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society.　　The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.