In a fast growing city of East China, migrants have been arriving and living for a dream of a better life. But what they find there are little opportunities and poor living conditions that push people, even couples, into violent and oppressive relations. Xiao Min, Ling Ling and Lao Yeh are some of the characters of this bitter chronicle of today China.

Bitter Money follows three young people leaving their Yunnan hometown to go to work for
the first time in one of the busiest city of China East coast, a place with the highest number
of part-time workers. The camera follows each character closely, capturing the true emotions
of their daily hard work and their disappointments upon receiving their wages. However,
the reality is that everyone lives in a daydream. Life’s still a barren everywhere you look.
“Wandering” has become the main theme in normal Chinese people’s opinion today. I used
swaying of focuses, wondering from one subject to the other, with a constant stagger of
camera shots and characters, in order to tell their stories.

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