Leo – The road home. based on a true story Sarah Brierley. After their father’s abandonment leaves them in extreme poverty, Saroo’s family has to work hard to support themselves. Saru’s older brother Guddu he is 14 years old and, in the company of his 5-year-old brother, he steals metal from the station Khandwain central India to be able to afford food.
However, one day Saroo falls asleep in a crowded station, and when he wakes up, while searching for his older brother, he accidentally gets on a train leaving for Calcutta. Thus, the child becomes irreparably distant from his brother and family and comes to Calcutta. completely lostsince he doesn’t even know how to communicate while running around.
Thus, he begins to live on the street and hang out with bad company, trying in every possible way to reunite with his family. His salvation comes when with the helpSocial workeraccepted Australian family Brierley. He then moved with his adoptive family to Hobart in Tasmania.
Here Saroo grows up, loved by his family, but unaware of his origins, he never gave up hope of finding his family in India. The turning point comes when his girlfriend Lucy invites him to use Google Earth to find the few places in his hometown that he still remembers. More than twenty years after a dramatic breakup, this idea seems to give Sar new hope of finding his origins.