Bai Jing

Blossom in Midnight

The film is about a woman from a rural area and works in a small restaurant as a cleaner with very low pay. As she has to support her family (mother and daughter), she has no money for herself for better makeup or dress up. She has low esteem. She later was fired by the boss. Because of no money and no home, she goes to the massage parlor and works there a sex worker. It happens that the first customer is the chef of previous restaurant. She has admired him for a while. In this first sex exchange, she is well satisfied both emotionally as well as economically. She starts sex work this way and becomes more confident.

Miss A

Based on a true story, the film takes its inspiration from the opposition protest Xu Tong’s Wheat Harvest met. The screening of a documentary about sex workers brings the heroine lots of troubles. A new NGO social worker helps her out and fights for her rights. However, their relationship becomes more and more personal. In the hot summer, they are alone in a cramped room...