Color/99min/DVCAM/2008
Location: Beijing
By: Xu Tong
E-mail: tt1727#hotmail.com
http://tt1727.spaces.live.com

Festivals and Awards：
Third Beijing Independent Film Forum

Program Note:
It is June, and the wheat is turning gold. Niu Hongmiao returns from Beijing to her hometown in Hebei Province to find her father lying on an IV drip and her mother out at the market. Life moves on, without too many incidents.
Flashback to several days earlier：Niu Hongmiao, a 20-year-old country girl and prostitute, is sitting in a dark somber hair salon on a dodgy street in an eastern suburb of Beijing. She swore not to get involved with customers, but she fell for Xu Jinqiang. She has fun with her colleagues, although they are not completely honest with each other. She stands up to matron’s greed, and fondly reminisces about Brother Chen, the man who gave her her first job as a hooker and who was imprisoned the previous winter.
The dutiful daughter leaves all her savings with her ailing father and returns to Beijing with only 100 yuan in her pocket. The wheat is ripe, but the incessant rain postpones the harvest.
This documentary records the intricacies of Niu Hongmiao’s double life and how she manages to balance her two realities, thus touching upon the very complexity of human nature.

Director:
Nothing upsets one more than deep disappointment with human nature! How can a documentary affect people? Despite its inability to change reality, a documentary can still convey something; it can bring someone else’s experience to the audience. It is human nature that leads to different fates.

Xu Tong (b. 1965. Beijing)
A photography major and graduate of the Communication University of China, Xu Tong has participated in numerous group exhibitions in China and abroad, including the “Kai wanxiao” exhibition at the Marella Gallery in 2006, the 2007 Italy International Art Exhibition and China on Paper: Eroticism in New York. In 2008, he completed a novel entitled Zhenbao Island and mounted Ambivalence, a joint exhibition with Qiu Hongfeng at Gaodi Gallery in 798 Art District in Beijing.

Filmography：
What Harvest (“Maishou”)