The sensual journey of a beautiful young woman whose devotion to her lover is tested by the distance that divides them. Gong Li, the female icon of modern Chinese cinema, teams up again with Sun Zhou, following their collaboration on the moving, and awardwinning drama Breaking the Silence. She gives a stupendous performance in possibly the most sensual role of her career, as a woman caught between two lovers, and two dimensions of desire.Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy, sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang, and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hurtles through a dark tunnel of no return. |