When the Bough Breaks (2011) Movie Poster

When the Bough Breaks (2011)

When the Bough Breaks (2011)

A group of migrant children have grown up next to a rubbish dumpsite in Daxing in the southern suburbs of Beijing. As high-rise buildings begin to encroach upon their shanty settlement and threaten to swallow up their makeshift hut, the children are faced with a predicament: should they continue their studies or submit to the early onset of adulthood?