Beijing Bicycle
One bicycle, two lives.
A poignant urban drama about two teenage boys from different worlds whose lives become entangled through a stolen bicycle, exploring class, desperation, and the collision of rural and urban China.
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
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