The Road to Mandalay (2016 film)

[3] It was also screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

[4] A Young Burmese girl, Lien Ching (Wu Ke-xi), smuggles herself in a truck heading for Bangkok, Thailand, aiming to pursue a better life, and eventually even go to Taiwan for better opportunities.

In Bangkok she meets A-kuo (Kai Ko), a boy from the same Burmese hometown Lashio, who was less ambitious but pragmatic and had a crush on her.

Lacking proper identification, Liang struggles to find legitimate work and gets arrested as an illegal immigrant by the Thai authorities.

Lien Ching makes enough money to gain passage into Taiwan, while A-kuo remains left behind.