Fresh from prison, one bad choice away from love or the gutter.
Tang Daxing, paroled after seven years in jail for brawling over his high school sweetheart Xiaohui, hopes to find legitimate work so they can finally marry -- but the reappearance of an old classmate who has struck it rich poses a temptation: can they withstand the lure of easy money in a fast-changing China?
Acting
Sun Honglei's magnetic, unpredictable lead performance.
Direction
Daming Chen's unflinching gaze at urban desperation.
Director
Daming Chen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during China's explosive early-2000s economic boom, the film captures a generation torn between socialist ideals and cutthroat capitalism.
Director Daming Chen largely disappeared from features after this; some critics call it his accidental swan song to a vanished indie scene.
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