le biciclette di pechino (2001)

beijing, 2001. guei is sixteen years old, he comes from the countryside and works as a pony express for an agency that lends him a magnificent mountain bike, his as soon as he earns 600 yuans. after weeks of hard work, when guei is finally about to redeem it, the bicycle is stolen. the boy loses his job and goes around the city to find the mountain bike that his friend saw mounted by jian, a student who says he bought it second-hand.