After being fired from her previous job, Qin-Qin, a 30-year-old beer girl, feels lost and tries to get drunk. Wandering through the darkened lanes of a fish market, she ponders the meaning of life. There she discovers a late night seafood stand, where she finds what she has been longed for…
Jacqueline Zhu
After being fired from her previous job, Qin-Qin, a 30-year-old beer girl, feels lost and tries to get drunk. Wandering through the darkened lanes of a fish market, she ponders the meaning of life. There she discovers a late night seafood stand, where she finds what she has been longed for…
A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
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Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
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94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.