"When Chen's estranged wife reappears asking for a divorce and custody of their daughter, the musician girl decides she will live with whoever can provide her with a piano. Chen's struggle thus begins. When efforts to borrow money and even steal a piano fail, Chen concocts a preposterous plan - he'll make a piano from scratch! He persuades a bunch of reluctant, but loyal, misfit friends to help him forge the instrument in a derelict factory from a heap of scrap steel. Though crude in design and tune, the factory piano awaits its first and final performance from his little girl."--Container.

The necktie -- "A man leads a drab existence in a dead-end job, until one day he discovers a forgotten birthday gift that magically reignites his long lost joy of life."--Container.

Not rated.

DVD release of the 2010 motion picture.

Director of photography, Zhou Shuhao ; art director, Wang Shuo, Zhang Yi ; composer, Wu Bingmo ; editor, Lu Yun, Gao Bo.

Director of photography, 周书豪 ; art director, 王硕, 张毅 ; composer, 吴冰默 ; editor, 卢允, 高博.

Wang Qianyuan, Qin Hailu, Chang Sin-yŏng.

王千源, 秦海璐, 张申英.

DVD ; widescreen (16:9) presentation.

In Mandarin with optional English subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Main film: The piano in a factory (106 min.)

This month's short film: The necktie / directed by Jean François Lévesque (13 min.).