Controversial Chinese director Li Yang's second feature is a near-perfect counterpart to his debut, BLIND SHAFT, an intense thriller set in the very real world of unregulated mines: A fictionalized expose of wife selling, another illegal scheme in which naive, impoverished human beings are commodities to be bought and sold.
China, the early 1990s. Recent college graduate Bai Xuemei (Huang Li) arrives in a small northern city with Hu, a newfound friend who introduces her to Wu, the manager of a Chinese medicine company. Hu tells Xumei she can make a lot of money as a traveling salesperson for Manager Wu's business: After a few trips to the countryside to col...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
95 mins