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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


- It's okay.

- When did you become so nice?

When did you buy me a pair of shoes?

I forgot. I forgot, sorry.

Up yours, baldy. I hope you choke.

Ai Qin.

- Come here.

- I'm having breakfast.

Come here!

Be warned.

Mr. Lin is my boyfriend.

He's mine. Got it?

Men are heartless sons of b*tches. They're cheap.

If you treat them nicely,

they treat you like a dog.

If you treat them like sh*t,

they lick your feet.

My husband left me for another woman.

Everyone has problems.

You may act tough,

but I can tell you've been hurt.

What do you know, country peasant?

I've got to go.

- What's wrong?

- I just called my family.

The money lender came again.

I thought you borrowed money from your friends.

No, from money lenders.

They threatened my mum.

They said they'd kill her.

Your payments are late?

I regret it so much.

I shouldn't have left.

I wanted my mum to have a better life.

It'll be okay.

# A person wandering away from home

# Is missing you, dear Mum

# The steps of a traveler

# On the other side of the world, without a home

# The winter snow, with the snowflakes

# Soften my tears

# Walking on and on

# Walking across many strange places

# For many years #

Close the door.

Do you want to make more money?

You're always complaining about it.

I know of a good job.

I have friends in London.

They run a massage place.

Lots of girls work there.

You could pay your debt quickly.

It's not for me.

Don't you want to make more money?

Help your family?

No, thank you.

I haven't finished yet.

- What?

- I heard there's cockling up north.

It pays very well.

Some of the others are coming with me.

It's an easy way to make money.

What do you think?

Think about it.

Come on!

We're working for a local farmer today.

It's tea and milk mixed together.

F***!

What happened?

It looks like there's been fighting here.

Let me have a look.

Door's open.

Somebody's pissed in here.

Chio!

Where are the others?

F***!

Nobody's here.

No one's here. There's no answer.

- Is that the landlord?

- F***! Clean it up, quickly!

He's such a prick. We're f***ed.

They're all coming. Are you?

- No.

- Why not?

What do you mean, why not?

- It's too dangerous and too dirty!

- Too dirty?

You shouldn't have come to England

if you were worried about dirt.

Why are you here? Your Robert's not dirty.

Go to him.

You do sh*t jobs. Now you ask me to do cockling.

You want me to look like a country peasant?

You are a f***ing country peasant,

more so than the others.

- I can't take this anymore!

- I don't care!

F*** off!

- I'm going to Robert's.

- F*** off!

F*** off! Go away! F*** off, quickly!

I don't need you. F*** off, quickly!

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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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