Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's Great Leap Forward, and lives a hard but adequate life, workingin the fields.When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren'tsure what to make of the new arrivals. They're not used to hard labor and village life. But despite his reservations, Ming befriendsa charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond over evening swims and shareddreams.But as the bitterness of life under the Party begins to take its toll on both boys, they begin to imagine the impossible: freedom.
