Twenty-something Li Mei (Lu Huang) drifts between jobs in the Chonqing region of China (formally known as Chungking) working in low paid jobs and finding herself mixed up with the wrong sort. Eventually she arrives in London as a tourist and begins working in a massage parlour where she gets to know one of her older clients, English man Geoffrey (Geoffrey Hutchings). She ends up marrying him for a visa and soon finds that she is struggling to adapt to her new country.
This Anglo-Chinese film directed by Xiaolu Guo is truly a global one and one that addresses challenges for the working class or underclass who try to adapt to this global world in search of a better life. Both for a western or Chinese audience it highlights those concerns well, although there are points of flatness in the film and it doesn't really provide any answers other than "it just is".
This Anglo-Chinese film directed by Xiaolu Guo is truly a global one and one that addresses challenges for the working class or underclass who try to adapt to this global world in search of a better life. Both for a western or Chinese audience it highlights those concerns well, although there are points of flatness in the film and it doesn't really provide any answers other than "it just is".