302:, and both center on a character named Xia Hao, but whether these are the same character is left ambiguous. The first is about a group of engineers who survey the elevation in a suburb, and the second is about a group of child friends and ends in the disappearance of most of the children. While investigating the collapse of an apartment building, the older Xia Hao meets and later begins a relationship with a woman named Swallow. Following a dream by one engineer, a water leak in a tunnel is investigated as a possible cause of subsidence. The group of children look for birds and discuss who they like, after which Fang Tin and Foxy compete for the younger Xia Hao's attention. After Fatty stops attending school, the children search for him, leading many of them to disappear.
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Hangzhou's rapid development, which led it to become unrecognizable, along with the central theme of memory and how land and physical space become reflections of memory. The film was influenced by the collapse of Xinjian Primary School in the
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Transcend Pictures Entertainment, Quasar Films, Cforce Pictures, Beijing Yoshow Films, Three Monkeys Films, Shanghai, Beijing Chase Pictures, Kiframe Studio, and Chan Pictures. It is distributed internationally by Flash Forward Entertainment and Luxbox, and in North America by
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