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".
4 11.6
真的蛮不错的，看似相关又不相关，真的看到热泪盈眶，虽然有猜到发生了什么但是还是被触动了，没有多余的东西和花里胡哨的特效，动画触动。
看完以后整个人都明亮温暖起来。
第六个故事——外婆铁皮柜打开，遗物慢慢铺陈开来，很浪漫。死亡、怀念竟也如此浪漫
《向着明亮那方》，多好的片名啊，我们心中还有明亮，未来就还有希望。支持原创的国产动画，华流才是顶流啊
《蒯老伯的糖水铺》很巧前几天才被广州妹子安利广东的糖水，芝麻糊，红豆沙…
我希望国产动画能将商业和艺术表达有机结合。像迪士尼的电影盒《你看起来很好吃》那样就很棒。
不足的可能还是，其实并不够吸引人，就算是小孩子可能也没什么耐心看，不会很喜欢。这种作品终究不会叫座。
追着梦想，一路向北，荆棘伴着鲜花，迎着风浪，从不退缩。
没有观众交流就离谱。
2022年的第一部5星作品。在没有看过预告片的情况下贸然买票走进了电影院。事实证明这次的冒险是值得的！天知道影院内灯光亮起的时候，我的内心有多么激情澎湃！太多话像是积堵在心口的洪水遇到了倾泄的口子。直到现在我还在好奇，导演们究竟是用了什么样的魔力，才能够在我心里引爆这么深刻的感动，我们都是生活的一部分，生活是复杂的，而我们虽然平常，却也有不平庸的瞬间，这就是生活的意义。有机会一定要二刷的好片子！
亲测是一部温暖的动画电影，是大朋友的治愈良药，是小朋友真善美的启蒙。
第11届BJIFF第七张票献给中国第一部绘本动画电影.第二排正中的观影体验+映后主创5位导演和总监制到场（差2位导）七个填满生活细节的故事 从童话风过度到写实 “明亮”的温泉流淌在视听感官和内心深处 多次泪目 在动画领域里绘本的力量确是一种独特的尝试 兔子在疑问中的想象力、萤火虫的光与熊婶带上面具的温柔、小火车里受灾的共鸣（我是四川长大的孩子 导演还抓住了山城和腊肉的细节）老伯夜里的各色糖水甜品、外婆的柜子里装着她的整个世界（中途有个情节是外婆只剩两三颗牙和“我”掉的牙！极有生活质感）、哼哈将军最后的反转、翼娃子写实又干净的世界 【最喜欢的是小火车、外婆的蓝色铁皮柜】
美术风格挺好的，但前几个故事好低幼，配音还要棒读严重，都快将我看睡呢……
只有《小兔的问题》是以女孩口吻展开讲述的——1:6——嘿嘿，咱女的从绘本年纪就知道自己不重要了，做不了主角呀（没有不满。最喜欢《外婆》画风，分明而饱满的乡间色彩也与我自己的童年外婆记忆深度重叠了。另外令我疑惑的是《糖水铺》众(当地)人坚持讲粤普的意义在——？明明《小火车》一整集都在自在地讲四川话，难道是默认全国人都听得懂川渝口音吗？利申：本人绝无歧视内陆腔调倾向，而且，每一part都有中文字幕的。
里面由好几个故事构成，寓意很深。对《蒯老伯的糖水铺》还有最后一个关于外婆的故事这两个作品印象比较深刻。《蒯老伯的糖水铺》动画转场深得我心，推荐！
敬所有绘本人，动画人！小兔子，小火车和外婆这三个故事让我泪目了。是属于我们自己的好故事，好动画！
排片多一些就好了。大人小孩都看得很好吧，特别是大人，里面的故事都太好了。
——以下有轻微剧透的分界线——
七个不同画风的动画短片，印象最深刻的是《蒯老伯的糖水铺》，煮的不是糖水，而是人情味。《萤火虫女孩》则很像我小学去作文补习班，老师在班上朗诵的我的作文——小动物在森林里聚会。《哼将军和哈将军》是剪纸风格，前面的神话故事化特别喜欢。《外婆的蓝色铁皮柜轮椅》，那个轮椅让我想到了《山海情》里面也是人手做的木板推车轮椅。故事虽都平淡，但都太可爱了。
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