Global Lens Film Series: Getting Home (Luo Ye Gui Gen)

In this soulful and humane comedy, Zhao, a middle–aged construction worker, struggles to fulfill a dying co–worker's last wish to be buried in China's Three Gorges region. Setting out with his colleague's body in tow, Zhao travels hundreds of miles across extraordinary countryside, encountering a number of colorful adventures and characters — and even discovering love in some unlikely quarters. For more information visit http://www.globalfilm.org/lens09/getting_home.htm.