Last Train Home


Release Date: September 3th, 2010
Starring: Suqin Chen, Changhua Zhan, Qin Zhang, Yang Zhang
Director: Lixin Fan
Studio: Zeitgeist Films
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes

The documentary from eminent filmmaker Lixin Fan is a dramatic story, heard by him from one couple while travelling by train.
Every year in spring Chinese cities are overcrowded by migrant workers, who are in a hurry to catch train. The reason is the Chinese New Year – the holiday, when many of the families rush to reunite after a long period of parting because of work in big cities.
The Zhangs, the parents of Qin, have left her a little child in the hope to earn money in a big city and escape poverty. They thought, they would have managed to provide a better future for their family. But the price, they had to pay for this chance, was rather disappointing. The girl – now a teenager - grown up without parents’ love; she suffered badly from their constant absence, and surely she dreamed of the absolutely another childhood. As a result, Qin doesn’t want to go to school and drops it out. By her rebellious behavior the girl revolts against the inevitable course of destiny. It is the destiny of many of the Chinese people, which is the price for the great economical upturn in China. Qin plans to join the ranks of migrant workers like her parents. The Zhangs have to do impossible to change their daughter’s intention and repair their broken family, if it’s not too late…


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