Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Shun Li works in a textile factory on the outskirts of Rome & hopes to get Italian citizenship so her 8-year-old son can join her in Italy When she is suddenly transferred to Chioggia a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon to work as a bartender in a pub she meets Bepi a Slavic fisherman nicknamed 'the Poet' by his friends a regular at that pub for years & a writer of doggerel verse Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan China's most celebrated poet & the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more However the budding relationship is threatened by the objections of both the Chinese immigrant population & the local Italian fishing community Actors Tao Zhao Rade Serbedzija Marco Paolini Directors Andrea Segre Format PALLanguage Italian Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1