[1] It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film.

[2] The film is about a young boy's experience as he moves from a rural town in Africa to Ireland: a new country, a different school system and a whole new set of customs.

Throughout the film he is silent, in deep contrast to the flashbacks of his life back in Africa where he is bright and talkative.

He calls Joseph Live Aid, a reference to the benefit concert to raise funds for relief of the Ethiopian Famine.

As the three boys stand in the hallway, they begin to bond by mocking the teacher's eccentric ways.