Stolen Life

Starting university, Yan’ni believes she is stepping into a new life away from her family, and she is, though not the one she expected. She meets Muyu at school and falls in love with him at once. What she does not know is that from the moment he met her the man began a long, calculated deception, one that will cost her both her child and the future she believed in. The account takes place at the edge of a trade in babies, and it tells that story not in the language of reporting but through what one woman sees. Li Shaohong builds the film not out of big scenes but out of Yan’ni being left more alone with every step. The ninety minute Chinese film, with Zhou Xun in the lead, was completed in 2005.