In 1998, I met a group of teenaged girls in a bar. We drank together and became friends. One day, one of the girls asked me, “Will you look down on us if we tell you that we are ‘working girls’?“ I said, “No.“ Two months later, I told them that I wanted to make a documentary about them, and they let me move into their rented flat. I lived with them for two or three months and learnt lots of stories about them. There are four of them living in the apartment: three teenaged girls - Ye, Yang and Massagal, and one guy they call Liang. He is 22 and has been a drug addict for five years. Yang is the older sister of Ye, and Liang is Yang’s boyfriend. Ye and Yang, the sisters, work in a nightclub as escorts, and Massagal is a masseuse in a barbershop, where male customers can get sex rather than a haircut. Many dramatic things happened in front of the lens during my stay with them. This makes the documentary look more like a documentary drama. When I began to shoot the film, the four of them were very close to one another. Then there were fights between Yang and her boyfriend, Liang. Gradually, Liang alienated Yang and began to approach her younger sister Ye, who is more charming. Then lots of dramatic things happened between them. Finally, the younger sister moved out of the house and Liang went back to his hometown alone. In the second part of the documentary, the sisters were re-united, but Massagal was harassed by local hooligans. Then one day, Yang and Massagal were arrested for prostitution. Luckily, Yang was released after I bailed her out but Massagal was sentenced to six months in a labour camp. Hu Shu [aus dem Forumprogramm]