Red Rock Film Festival 2008

Twenty-two year old David Braddock is floundering - stuck in that lazy period between college and ‚"What am I going to do with the rest of my life?‚" Even David‚'s best friend, Sha is concerned with David's aimless attitude. David‚'s parents pressure him to either choose a career path or join the family business. David decides to follow his father‚'s urging to "Go East Young Man.‚" Once in China, he finds that it is much different from what he imagined: full of bustling modern cities as well as charming little villages. He travels to a town that the modern world hasn‚'t yet altered and meets Mei: a beautiful, ambitious young girl who works two jobs in order to save enough money to follow her dream of going to the prestigious Beijing University. Despite their differences, a romance blossoms during the few short weeks that David is with Mei. He returns home to San Francisco to find that his family‚'s business is in even more difficulty than when he left. Sha encourages David to return to China and see things though: both business and romance, and together they head back to the middle kingdom. This coming of age, fish out of water story takes us on a fascinating journey to a world full of strange customs and people. But cultural differences, politics or distance cannot change the fact that we all share the same basic desire: to love and be loved.