Fortune Teller

Li Baicheng tells fortunes. He works in a village near Beijing. Most of his clients are people pushed to the margins. Sex workers are among them. All of these trades count as forbidden in the country. At home Li looks after his wife. His wife is called Pearl and she is deaf and unable to speak. Li took her away from her family. When winter comes police checks begin. Fortune tellers and sex workers are the targets. The two of them go to his home town for a time. There Li comes face to face with his own family. Li Baicheng and Pearl appear in the hundred and fifty seven minute documentary, a Chinese production Xu Tong finished in 2010.