[Urban life + period setting + working-class life + multiple female leads] Dongguan at the turn of the millennium. Twenty-year-old porter Zhou Yu catches workshop supervisor Du Xu making out with Liu Lei, the factory girl he's secretly in love with, in a warehouse. All he can do is swallow his resentment.
The factory girls' coy refusals, rivals watching like hawks, brothers living by the knife.
When lust, money, and dignity are stirred together in the bustling city, a poor boy needs far more than peeping and brute force to make something of himself.
In 2000, a worker's life was worth less than a car.
But some people refuse to believe fate has the final say…
