Release Date: 2006-10-25
Overview: When a young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China, she becomes another one of 3 million migrant workers that have become the bedrock of our economy. Forced to live with eleven other Chinese people in a two bedroom house, they work in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. Risking their lives for pennies these unprotected workers end up cockling in Morcombe Bay at night.
Rating: 6.5 / 10
Ai Qin Lin
as Ai Qin
Zhan Yu
as Mr. Lin
Tao Li
as Chinese Cockle-Picker
Zhe Wei
as Xiao Li
Yong Aing Zhai
as Zhai
Nick Broomfield - Director
Mark Wolf - Director of Photography
David Bryan - Art Direction
Harry Escott - Original Music Composer
Molly Nyman - Original Music Composer
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