LOST IN BEIJING (Ping guo)

Immigrants from northeastern China, An-kun (a window washer) and his pretty young wife Ping-guo (a masseuse) earn enough money to get by. When Ping-guo’s boss makes unwanted sexual advances, she and her husband concoct a plan to blackmail him with threats of accusing him of rape. The boss’s wife has her own sexual interest in An-kun and sexual revenge begins to complicate the matter. This intriguing new film shows a dramatically changing Beijing and major shifts in the socio-sexual-economic traditions, which would send Mao into a tirade.