` ` The Boy with a Gun '' has simplicity mixed with moral complexity and emotional complexity . In the movie , he escapes a children 's home and is desperate to get back to his father . Alas , when he does get away , the care-workers ' story checks out : Their apartment is empty , even Cyril 's most prized possession , the bike his dad gave him , has gone . When he finds the apartment empty , he runs headlong into the arms of a stranger .
` ` The Boy with a Gun '' has simplicity mixed with moral complexity and emotional complexity . In the movie , he escapes a children 's home and is desperate to get back to his father . When he finds the apartment empty , he runs headlong into the arms of a stranger .