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Liguo Yuan
Overview
Wang Quan and Liu Jinglei are migrant workers drifting north, the Spring Festival is coming -- but they don't have the money to travel home for the New Year. In desperation, the two come up with a bad idea, and embroil themselves in a kidnapping plot.
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