Bruno is an only child in a small mountain village of 14 inhabitants. Things like schooling, childhood, city and career are abstract concepts for him.
He understands, despite his young age, that it is not possible to domesticate nature or change anyone's true calling. The film is based on an award-winning novel from 2016, something you have had difficulty freeing yourself from, which is reinforced by the use of a narrative voice that is sometimes superfluous. Especially so when the author Paolo Cognetti's prose sparkles in the lines.