With over 11 million passengers, 39,450 miles of tracks, 15,000 trains, and 7,000 stations, Indian Railways, India's train system, is a universe unto itself. Each year over 120,000 destitute children, with nowhere else to go, arrive at the platforms and join a gang in order to survive. Depending on their gang leader, some pick rags, serve tea or collect water bottles. Others turn to pick-pocketing or worse, glue-sniffing and prostitution. LUCKY EXPRESS: INDIA'S FORGOTTEN TRAIN KIDS crisscrosses India's railways with the desperate children who have made this vast network their home. Lucky, a former train kid with dreams of becoming a filmmaker serves as the guide, allowing intimate access to the children who share their astonishing life stories, hopes, and dreams. Criss-crossing the plains of India all the way to Nepal, the film follows Lucky as he returns to the Himalayan foothills to search for the family he fled at the age of five.
