Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from…

In a small county in Shandong Province in 2008, single mother Wei lives alone with her daughter Miao. A mother’s desperate efforts to get her daughter into China’s top universities…