Once Upon a Time Proletarian

Film shows the present state of China through twelve platforms an old farmer a middle aged waitress a car washer a weapons dealer fish store owners a barber a factory owner a park ranger a shopping mall employee etc These various faces of the socalled proletarian class ask what is a dream Answers to this question exist in the interview with each character but is conveyed much more clearly through the black and white image of the children putting up their future as security as shots are heard continually behind them