General Information

Author/Creator

Wang, Jiu-Liang director

Language

Chinese.

Subtitles

English, Hungarian

Published

China 2016

Physical Description

HDD (82 min.)

Digital ver. identifier

HU_OSA_00006137

Contents/Summary

Summary

Dreaming of attending school, 11-year-old Yi-Jie works alongside her family in a recycling facility in China. She learns about the outside world through the trash it produces: small packages of powder allow her to taste coffee; she learns English from discarded greeting cards; and broken Barbie dolls become her best friends. Her father drinks away her tuition fees. The owner of the plant works night and day to buy a fancy car, ignoring his and his family's physical and mental health problems. He looks down on Yi-Jie’s family, but depends on them to do the dirty work. Will Yi-Jie break out of the cycle of poverty or succeed her parents as an illiterate laborer? A poignant story of social inequality which reminds us that our own actions can have a direct impact on people living thousands of kilometers away.

Subjects

Genre

Documentary films

Bibliographic Information

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
Digital film	OSA Film Library	FL Record 4416 (HU_OSA_00006137.mp4)	Available		Access Copy, MP4 format