Up the Yangtze

The river that erased her past will write her future

A contemplative documentary about displacement and transformation, following young workers navigating a modernizing China as the Yangtze River itself becomes a symbol of erasure and renewal.

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.