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Clara Law's award-winning drama exposes the harsh realities that underlie many Mainland Chinese dreams of emigration and in the process, brings the bizarre subterranean world of illegal immigrants in New York City to the screen for the first time. When Zhou (Tony Leung from Annaud's The Lover) loses contact with his wife, Li (Maggie Cheung), who has been studying in the USA for the past year, he frantically goes to find her. Smuggling himself into the U.S, friendless and unable to speak English, Zhou's search reveals everything Li went through when she arrived in her "Promised Land." When they are tearfully reunited, he finds out Li is no longer quite the woman he married, and fate has a cruel blow in store for him. [from the Rim Films Catalog] |
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