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Synopsis: A young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China. She is forced to live with eleven other Chinese in a small house in Thetford, Norfolk, working in factories and fields preparing food. The film was inspired by the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, when a gang of Chinese cockle-pickers found themselves trapped tide coming in.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Director(s): Nick Broomfield
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Year:
2006
96 min
25 Views


Why did you fight with your classmates?

Remember, Mum is always with you.

God,

when can I go home?

This is so hard.

Can you hear me?

Ai Qin, what's wrong?

I can't stand this anymore.

I don't know when I'll see my son again.

Maybe he won't want me when I get back.

Hello?

How are you, darling?

How are the children?

What are you looking at?

I don't want to play with you peasants!

She's losing it.

She's going to give us hell tomorrow.

Be careful.

Rent money!

50 for two weeks.

Good boy.

Here's for this week.

Xiao Li?

I'll pay next week.

What? You don't have the money?

I sent all my money home.

That's no excuse.

I'll pay next week.

It won't be the same amount next week.

You'll have to pay double. Do you understand?

The landlord is coming.

What are you doing?

You've made the kitchen so dirty.

You tidy up the kitchen. Do you hear me?

- What are you doing?

- Here.

- Why is it short?

- Only 11 people paid this week.

- Who didn't pay?

- Xiao Li.

Here's 55 for us.

Give the rest to Robert.

It's raining again.

This Ghost is so stupid.

If we were in China, I'd beat him to death,

but he's the type to call the police.

Don't provoke him.

Let's go in. Let's go.

Look at your swollen eyes.

You can't get out of work forever.

How can you stand that bald head?

Disgusting b*tch.

You're no better.

You're always calling your wife in China.

You keep telling her that you love her

and that you're going to bring her to England.

How do you know?

I've heard you on the phone.

Go with baldy, then.

He's got a house and land.

You're getting mud on me.

You're worried about mud on you?

That's wrong. You need to get the dirt off.

- But my hands are getting messy.

- So what?

Hurry up.

Mr. Lin?

Where do they send these spring onions?

Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco.

Supermarkets.

Oh, my god! That's a toilet?

We should buy more today.

We just got our salary. We should splurge.

You cook or I cook today?

Let's buy some chocolate.

It's so expensive.

It's for the people at the job agency.

So you want to bribe her?

Ghosts like to be bribed.

Listen to yourself. Cheeky one.

Everything's so expensive.

Look, Chinese vegetables, 78p.

Look, spring onions.

Maybe I picked these ones myself.

Wow, 58p. They're so expensive. What a rip off!

We wrapped those onions,

but we can't even afford them.

Ai Qin, how many boxes did you do?

I only did four.

- Not bad.

- I did six.

- I did seven.

- You all did so well.

The boss did the best.

This is much better than that chicken wing.

Your chicken wing fell on the ground.

Robert.

F***! Look, he's holding her.

This is for Ai Qin.

- A really nice one.

- It's not cooked.

I'll buy you a pair of shoes.

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Nick Broomfield

Nicholas "Nick" Broomfield (born 1948) is an English documentary film director. His self-reflexive style has been highly influential, and was adapted by many later filmmakers. In the early 21st century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he calls "Direct Cinema". His output ranges from studies of entertainers to political works such as examinations of South Africa before and after the end of apartheid and the rise of the black-majority government of Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress party. Broomfield generally works with a minimal crew, recording sound himself and using one or two camera operators. He is often seen in the finished film, usually holding the sound boom and wearing the Nagra tape recorder. more…

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