Suitable only for 12 years and over
Guan Hu’s film delves, with influences and cameo appearances by master Jia Zhangke, into the story of a hero without a homeland who stars in an exhilarating motorcycle adventure in the environs of the Gobi Desert. In the days leading up to the start of the Beijing Olympics, Lang, an ex-convict, returns to his city, now half-ruined and almost ghostly, where there are hardly any people left. There he becomes attached to a helpless black dog that will accompany him on his journey to the interior of this arid place that was once a home. A humanist thriller about redemption, codes of loyalty and survival, in open spaces where the complex history of social and identity transformations in modern China beats.
