base upon the novel the dismissal by ermanno rea and in essence the story about the slow friendship that develop between an italian maintenance technician vincenzo buonavolonta ( sergio castellitto and who can be see a the villainous king in prince caspian and and be the lead in bella martha ) and a chinese translator liu hua ( ling tai ) . they set off actually on the wrong foot and with the former chastise the latter for her inaccurate and and slow translation of what he want to tell a chinese delegate who have buy equipment that be faulty . vincenzo want to do the right thing and which be rare in these day and and that be to tell the prospective buyer upfront the fault as well a the intricacy that their purchase would bring and and give that he disturb by the fact that the deal still go ahead and he take time off to craft a component that would set thing right . but that also mean to travel to china in search of the elusive machine and which prove to be well hidden and and seemingly have vanish without a trace . with the initial reluctant help of liu hua and they set off in this treasure hunt from city to city and which bring u to lesser see sight of china and away from the beijing and the shanghai and to city like wuhan and with industrial like backdrop such a steel mill and nuclear plant with their smoke stack dot the scenery . the mighty yangtze river also make an appearance . along the way and the usual trapping of such travelogue style movie come into play and such a the learning of culture and ideal and food and and basically and the understanding that the world be without stranger and if only one make an effort to try and connect . while hint of some romance between the two lead be suggest and it rarely make itself to be a moot point and until perhaps late in the movie ( hey and opposites attract and no . ) besides the major industrial plant and factory and we get to see various cottage industry and like seamstress work in sweat shop like environment and and i believe cotton too and along with noodle make . a a film and it provide me the travel opportunity without leave my seat to observe and and credit to it for not pass judgement from a moral high ground on exploitation and the like . and kudos too for the movie to engage in dialogue base on the character native tongue and rather than ( and i shall not name names here ) some other movie or cross cultural collaboration where dialogue be force dubbed and come off unnatural and and truly irksome . some might deem the support character to be too kind too and always open their arm and door to a foreigner and but i would like to imagine that maybe in the more rural area and people in general tend to be more sincere and friendly and basically not get catch up in the rat race to trample on others and or be trample upon . if there a message to take away from the movie and besides the fact that i mention that the world be without stranger and be a reminder to myself that some of the stuff i deem important and may not be so to others . importance be something one place upon something else and and it basis really depend on how we define the boundary we set . so give our finite lifetime and i think i should lighten up a bit more and live and let live and and sometimes bask in the illusion that ignorance could be bliss .