With its steady gaze, A Place Called Home invites us into the day-to-day lives of China's most innocent, most helpless, and most forgotten individuals: children who have been abandoned by their birth parents and now reside in the Zhang Jiakou Child Welfare Center. It is an unflinching look into an institutional world where heartbreak and tragedy, though routine, co-exist with the simplest, smallest, and most unexpected everyday triumphs.