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"The Last Train Home" - story of one family among the 130 million migrant Chinese who struggle to go home for the New Year.

The Last Train Home focuses on one couple, the Zhangs, peasants who leave their farm and two small children for factory work in a city over a thousand miles to the east. Their days and evenings are spent hunched over sewing machines stitching garments for the American market. Each night they scrub their clothes and feet in a bucket and escape to a narrow cot in a dormitory, drawing a thin curtain for privacy. The only hope in their otherwise hopeless lives is that their paltry wages will someday buy their own children a better life. But as the film unfolds, we see the horrifying irony of their lovely and lively daughter Qin growing into bitter adolescence, quitting school, and boarding a train for her own frightening ride east to the factory.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...-bottom/65239/

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