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Saroo Brierley has lived a good life with his caring mother and father in Australia, but as he grows older, memories begin to return to Saroo of his life before he was adopted.

When he was young, Saroo lived with his family in a small village and since the father of the family left years earlier, Saroo's mother looks after him, his 2 elder brothers and young sister; she works as often as she can to feed and care for her children but often that just wasn't enough. Wishing to help the family, the two elder boys would often go off and beg at the busy railway station and find occasional work helping sweep trains.

When Guddu announces that he's going to the train station, his younger brother (Saroo) asks if he can go with him, he accepts and the boys set out on their journey. With his little brother feeling tired, Guddu leaves his brother to rest and tells him to stay where he is. The five year old did what he was told for a while but soon grew impatient by his brother's absence, he decides to go look around the train station and eventually falls asleep on a stationary train thinking his brother would know where he was. When the little boy awakes he finds himself speeding through unfamiliar landscapes with no way to escape.

His journey seemed endless and finally finds himself in Kolkata. Afraid an in a huge city unlike any he'd visited before, Saroo finds himself on the streets surrounded by predators. Eventually Saroo is taken in by children's home and despite their best efforts to reunite Saroo with his family, the details the young boy can provide about his home town and family are scarce. With little other option, the boy is put up for adoption where the Brieley's take him in. 

Now fully grown, Saroo decides to begin a seemingly impossible search to find information on his life before finding home in Australia. Working with the few bits of evidence he has and collating his memories, Saroo is determined to find the rest of his family.

Lion is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley who detailed these life events in his book 'A Long Way Home', released in 2012.