EPL International Film Festival: Shun Li and the Poet

Monday, December 16, 7 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Shun Li and the Poet. (2013. 98 min. Italy)

Shun Li works in a textile factory near Rome, slowly paying off the broker that brought her from China to Italy, while saving money so she can bring her young son to join her. She is suddenly transferred to work as a bartender at a pub in a small town along the Venetian Lagoon. The pub is the hangout of the local fisherman, including Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant nicknamed "The Poet. A tender, delicate friendship grows between Shun Li and Bepi. But gossip soon threatens their innocent relationship, a bond that had once transcended two very different, yet not at all distant cultures.