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This is film based on a true story. It is disturbing portrayal of a secret world that is all around us.

Ai Qin, a young Chinese girl from Fujian, China, borrows $25,000 to pay the Snakehead gang to smuggle her into the UK so she can support her son and family back in China. Once in the UK she becomes another one of three million migrant workers that is the bedrock of the food supply chain, construction and hospitality industries. She lives with eleven other Chinese in a two-bedroom suburban house. With an illegally forged work permit she works in factories preparing food for British supermarkets. In their search for better paying jobs to repay their debts they end up cockling in Morecambe Bay at night. On February 5th 2004 twenty-three Chinese drowned in Morecambe, their families in China are still paying off their debts.

The film won the Gipuzkoa Blood Donors' Solidarity Award at San Sebastian Film Festival 2006 and First Prize at the Paris Film Festival.