Andrei Kravchuk's film is a heart-tweaker whose ultimate point is frankly elusive. Kolya Spiridonov plays Vanya, a sweet-faced little 10-year-old in a squalid Russian orphanage, whose kids are unofficially offered for adoption with a price-tag to childless couples from the prosperous west. Little Vanya's luck appears to be in when an Italian couple chooses him, but Vanya yearns to find his real mother and escapes. The hunt is on, and it's reasonably exciting, but there is a persistently saccharine tone, despite the harshness. It's a film that aspires to indict a moral heartlessness and shallowness in the new Russia, yet it earns hardly more than a shrug.