Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan's parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is drifting his father's old taxi through abandoned parking lots.
Cinematography
Neon-soaked parking lots as liminal sanctuary spaces.
Acting
Junxiong Wang's silences speak entire suppressed histories.
Direction
Bo compresses epic tragedy into 16 breathless minutes.
Director
Hanxiong Bo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The One-Child policy created millions of 'hidden' children, mostly girls given to relatives or abandoned; Yan's story inverts this erased history.
Director Bo cast non-professional actors from his hometown, including actual taxi drivers — the drifting sequences were shot guerrilla-style in real abandoned lots.
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