Born Under Dust

Liu Dashan, a rural youth from the Loess Plateau, left his hometown and devoted himself to the city's construction sites with a simple dream of "building a building in the city and building a big house for his family." He endured hardships and believed in "strength in exchange for food", but in the reinforced concrete jungle, he was gradually swallowed up by unpaid wages, work injuries, family changes and indifferent reality. From full of hope to exhausted physically and mentally, he finally returned to the mountains without accomplishing anything, leaving only a silent figure run over by the wheels of time. This is a bottom survival fable about struggle, fall and silent destruction.