Synopsis

China in the 1980s. The bookish farm boy Cheng Dongqing, the ambitious, self-assured Meng Xiaojun, and the slightly flaky, poetic Wang Yang, are three friends studying at university in Beijing and simultaneously prepping for American visa interviews. Wang is the first to be granted one but forfeits it to stay with his Western girlfriend, and Cheng is repeatedly denied one. Only Meng actually gets a study visa, and as he's leaving he tells his friends he has no intention of returning to China.The film then heads into standard rags to riches territory, following Cheng and Wang as they build a massively successful school, New Dream, from the ashes of Cheng's misfortuneand Wang's innate ability to connect with students, often through Hollywood movies. Across the Pacific, Meng is having little success living the America dream and is reduced to bussing tables to makes ends meet.

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