A young building company employee has no money even to celebrate his birthday with a few beers. Asking his boss for a loan, the only thing he gets is the corpse of another employee dead on the job that the company wants done away with on the quiet. Carrying the body in his van, the youngster tries to return the dead man to his family. This is a journey of one worker from the city to the countryside - opposite the current trend of all the immigrant workers moving towards the city in China today. It is also a journey from a red bricked industrial landscape to a green natural essential one. However such polarities are never what they seem - and it is in fact the red bricks of the new developments in the Chinese countryside which stand out and pierce the natural landscapes, and thus create the obstacles to our hero as he travels through them, searching for some roots, some family to return the body to.

Sceneggiatura / Screenplay Conrad Clark
Fotografia (colore) / Photography (colour) Wu Qiao
Montaggio / Editing Rudi Fieldgrass
Musica / Music Zhang Yang / Shengzi
Suono / Sound Li Min Na
Interpreti / Cast Yang Feng Jun, Jia Hong, Chen Jiao Ying
Direttore artistico / Art Director Joe Yao
Produzione / Production Practice Productions, Wendy Kuan
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2007
Durata / Running time 88'
Formato / Format HD

Conrad Clark

Born 1979 in Taunton, UK. After leaving the Film School in London, he initially worked as assistant cameraman and apprentice to the Spanish cinematographer Raquel Fernandez. He co-wrote and shot a 40 minute mini feature with Arabic director Saleh Karama, Time left (2003). He then completed a masters in anthropology at the school of African and oriental studies where he focused his studies on Chinese culture and language. After shooting in 2003 two more shorts, Breathless (Talent Campus at Berlinale 2004) and Love struck (Best Film, Portobello Film Festival 2004) he turned his attention to directing. He spent the next two years studying Chinese and working on the feature film script based on the lives of immigrant workers in Shanghai. Soul Carriage (2006) won the Best New Director Award at San Sebastian Film Festival 2007.