19-year old Qinghong has grown up in the poor Guizhou province, where her parents settled as part of a government initiative. Guizhou is where her friends are, where she first experienced love and where she wants to stay, but her increasingly bitter father dreams of the good life in Shanghai.

A once elegant, now shabby Cairo high-rise harbors its residents’ secret needs in a move that criss-crosses between a myriad of plot lines that deal with such traditionally taboo subjects as homosexuality, fundamentalism, corruption and prostitution. The most expensive film in Egyptian history, this juicy epic runs the gamut of the social spectrum.

The film 'Peacock’ is the story of three children in an ordinary family in an obscure, remote, post-industrial city in Central China in the 1970s and 1980s. One of the features of the film is a no-celebrity cast, which according to Gu Changwei, the director, is a positive aspect of the film. Grim and nearly silent, the film is set in northern China in the 1970s and follows the difficult experiences of three siblings. When the characters actually do speak, they speak Standard Chinese with an almost incomprehensible Henan accent.

One snowy day, a girl looking for a place to stay jumps into the private residence of an old woman. First they both dislike one another, though as they spend more time together their friendship grow. However, one day the girl must leave the house of the old woman.