A Wing Chun master has to defeat 8 martial arts schools to open his own school, yet he has become a chess piece to the local power dynamics.
In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career.
Set in a small Chinese village, where an illegal trade in human blood has caused the spread of HIV; two AIDS sufferers surprisingly fall in love with each other and decide to risk everything to pursue their last chance at happiness.
In China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten years. She is raised by her grandfather. He introduces her to gymnastics where she does her best to fit in with the others.
Gesitueerd in een verlaten dorp nabij de ruines van de Grote Muur in Noord-China, schetst dit allegorisch drama het conflict tussen morele corruptie, oude Onder het systeem van vrije handel...