In central China, a Master coach recruits
poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions.
Through hard work and discipline, these boys and girls come of age,
trained in the art of boxing and the game of life. They are filled with
Olympic dreams, hoping to become China's next amateur heroes. But the
pull of professionalism also weighs upon their shoulders. Their coach
hopes to show them the way. The top student boxers face dramatic choices
as they graduate--should they fight for the collective good as amateurs
or for themselves and their own personal gain as professionals? It's a
metaphor for the choices that everyone faces now, in the New China.
Directed by: Yung Chang
Starring: Zongli He, Yunfei Miao, Moxiang Qi, Ye Xinchun, Zhong Zhao.
