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Yo

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Yo is a strong young man, but with limited mental skills. He says he is fifteen years old, although he seems to be older. He lives and works in his mother's restaurant by a busy freeway. Yo loves his mother but hates her lover. One day he meets Elena, an eleven-year-old girl, who will change his life forever.

The film is based on the short story by French writer and Literature Nobel Prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio.

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