Director Huang Ji has taken it upon herself to be the voice for China’s left-behind children, children that have been left at home with relatives, as their parents move to the bigger cities in search of work and a livelihood. After her excellent debut film “Egg and Stone” in 2012, she reteams with leading lady Yao Honggui to bring us a tale of another left-behind girl as she goes through the trials and tribulations of growing up and a rude coming-of-age.
In the quiet, grim town of Meicheng in rural Hunan, high-schooler Lynn dreams of joining the police academy as she lives with her grandparents like a lot of the children in town her age, while her mother earns a living in southern China. A recent rape and murder has the town on edge, which has led to the mobile phones of the students being confiscated at school. Egged on by her best friend May,...
In the quiet, grim town of Meicheng in rural Hunan, high-schooler Lynn dreams of joining the police academy as she lives with her grandparents like a lot of the children in town her age, while her mother earns a living in southern China. A recent rape and murder has the town on edge, which has led to the mobile phones of the students being confiscated at school. Egged on by her best friend May,...
- 1/18/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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