Many of us long to fight for ourselves, but life wears down our edges and makes us hold back. That is why we are moved by the blind football players who, dealt the hardest script in life, refuse to accept their fate and long to "win". They are braver: even for a fleeting moment of brilliance on the pitch, they will go for it without fear.
Tieniu is a restless 17-year-old blind boy. After graduating from a school for the blind, he wants to play for the city's newly founded blind football team, but like his classmates he is sent by his teachers to work at a massage parlour, until Coach Lyu of the blind football team arrives and discovers his athletic talent. Tieniu, an orphan, and Coach Lyu, who failed with a sighted team, set out to prove in a championship that life has not abandoned them. Through training day and night, Tieniu finds a sense of worth in his coach, but at the same time Coach Lyu's real motive for approaching him gradually comes to light. An unforeseen danger is quietly closing in on Tieniu......
Genre:
Drama, Coming-of-age, SportsDirector:
Yuan GenScreenwriter:
Yuan Gen | Fan ShuhanProducer:
Peng Qingqing | Lei DanwenProduction Company:
Shenzhen Buguang Film Technology Co., Ltd.Art Advisor:
Han SanpingYuan Gen: director. Born in Gansu and raised in Guangdong. While studying at Emerson College and the AFI Conservatory, he made several short films; The Chef and Xiaoyu, among others, were selected for festivals in China and abroad.
Yuan Gen: director. Born in Gansu and raised in Guangdong. While studying at Emerson College and the AFI Conservatory, he made several short films; The Chef and Xiaoyu, among others, were selected for festivals in China and abroad. Fan Shuhan: film screenwriter and director, born in Taiyuan, Shanxi. She studied television directing at the Communication University of China, then documentary at Northwestern University and screenwriting at the AFI Conservatory. Her documentary Stay Close was selected for the Sundance Film Festival in 2019 and, the same year, was shortlisted for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Peng Qingqing: previously worked at iQIYI and Tencent Pictures, where she was a producer at the film production center of the film division. Theatrical films she worked on as an investment project include Animal World and The Wandering Earth; TV and web series she produced include The Galloping Era and The Great Pediatricians. Lei Danwen: MFA in producing from the AFI Conservatory and BA from the Beijing Film Academy. Recent producing credits include the theatrical film The Unfinished Love, the Hunan TV documentary Yuelu Academy and the Bilibili documentary Codes of the Mind.
Tieniu, an orphan with no one to rely on since childhood, is selected for the city's first blind football team. He hopes a championship will win him acceptance from the world, but while preparing for the tournament he draws closer to the truth of why he was abandoned.