Matt Scott

Film shows the present state of China through twelve platforms, an old farmer, a middle aged waitress, a car washer, a weapons dealer, fish store owners, a barber, a factory owner, a park ranger, a shopping mall employee, etc. These various faces of the so-called proletarian class ask, what is a dream? Answers to this question exist in the interview with each character, but is conveyed much more clearly through the black and white image of the children putting up their future as security as shots are heard continually behind them.

Un escritor realiza el viaje soñado entre la ciudad y el pueblo, la realidad y la ficción, en una caótica China contemporánea. (FILMAFFINITY)

Examine the tremendous moral and human cost of creating a 'New China' for the 2008 Olympics. As traditional communities are bulldozed to make way for modern high-rise apartments and ancient traditions are cast aside, just who is benefitting?