The Promise

teens

organized crime, corruption, family business, crime family, exploitation, human trafficking, dark drama, moral awakening, guilt and redemption, father-son conflict, moral reckoning, immigrant exploitation, family loyalty vs conscience, underground economy, immigrant workers, 90s, aesthetic, antwerp, art house, belgium, boy, child protagonist, coming of age, dysfunctional family, europe, exile, existentialism, father, father son relationship, france, human trafficking, illegal immigration, immigrant, immigration, inspirational, labor, los angeles, melancholy, mesmerizing, migration, misfit, past, racial discrimination, racism, refugee, serious, sex trafficking, sincere, slow cinema, teenage boy, tense, thought provoking, tokyo, touching, trafficking, traumatic childhood, usa, year 1996, youth

France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Tunisia