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".
有太多让我共鸣和感触的情节了，传达出的精神也让人肃然起敬，就是老师太艰苦了好心疼啊
梅朵姐姐太好看了，怎么可以有这样温柔的女子，真的太好磕了！影片最后姐姐唱歌那里看的我揪心的疼，姐姐演技也超棒
感觉韩松和梅朵已经不单单是恋人情侣了，他们更是灵魂伴侣，有同样的大爱。
能把这么多孩子都做到视如己出是一件多么不容易的事情了，里面除了假的巡山员，就没有可憎的人物了
很少看这类电影，感觉风景很不错就点开看看，没想到发现了宝藏，很有风土人情的一部电影。
比起流量电影，这种电影真情实感，催人泪下。只是觉得后面剧情纯属为了泪点而设，略显多余，另外，中间有一处BUG，那一段开路回家的情节大可不必，高原上如果真是路踏了，凭几个孩子根本无能为力。
曾经支教过，看到这部电影在爱奇艺播出，冲了个会员，做过的事情，看相同的人再做一次有共同的感触，只是当时支教条件没这么差，希望国家越来越好，扶持贫困山区
高质量文艺片，演员演的真实，导演和摄影画面很有感觉
韩老师母亲说：心在哪儿，爱在哪儿，家就在哪儿真的一下泪目！强烈推荐大家看！
前面的情节推进的还可以，但自从男主的母亲去世后，故事发展太快了，后面的情节都太没看明白
孩子们这么渴望知识喜欢老师，是我从小到大都不敢这么相信的。景色是真美
我不曾到达的地方,我的学生若是去了,那便是我也去过了。看着这些孩子，我忽然就明白了当老师的意义。
男主那演技真的是绝了，特别是母亲病重那段，哭的那叫一个撕心裂肺啊
我要考教师资格证！！！还差个普通话，明年一定要考下来，支教有点困难哈哈哈哈，但是想当老师，感觉和学生相处挺好的，虽然可能会生气，恨铁不成钢，但是感觉挺有意思的
孩子们都那么懂事真的觉得太理想化了，都太乖了，调皮的也不是没有但也就那样了
四星给到导演，五星给到故事，故事很简单，但直击人心，因为真实，因为纯粹，干干净净，就像洁白的哈达
事件其实发生的挺多的，但就是感觉有点乱有点平
在这部电影里面，只看到了质朴的人们和无疆的大爱，韩老师的结局虽然看起来很难过，但是对于他来说，他的一生应该很幸福吧！
感动肃然起敬，我曾经也有过当老师的梦想，可惜自己没有努力，确实十分十分后悔。
十分感动的一部片子，讲述了一位到藏区支教的老师，虽面对恶劣的条件和极端的环境，却没有恐惧而选择了留下，因被藏区学生朴实善良的情感所打动，后用一生奉献于此的支教故事。影片关注乡村支教和地方教育发展的问题，用最真实的镜头向我们展示了偏远地区孩子们学习的困难，却又热爱学习的模样。同时，通过主人公韩松老师的故事也向我们塑造了一位负责，善良大义的青年教师，因为他的引导和坚持，帮助了偏远地区学童，给了他们走出家乡看世界的机会，他是许许多多支教老师的缩影，也代表着这个行业的辛酸与伟大。但这部片子还有些许不足，因为时间跨度大，所以在剧情和剪辑上都略显跳跃，处理的不太好，只能说是美中不足吧，导演陈中阳年轻有为，但还有许多进步的地方，剧情上的个人认为结局略有遗憾，可能脱离了美好的电影，现实就是如此残酷的吧。
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