居住在福建沿海的爱钦(林爱琴 饰)为了改善家里的生活,决定偷渡国外打工。她举债40万元,经过疲累不堪且胆战心惊的长途跋涉,她终于来到了英国。然而,生活的艰辛是她如何也想象不到的。作为偷渡客,他们无法找到体面、待遇优渥的工作,等待他们的只有高强度、高危险性、低报酬的岗位。爱琴咬紧牙关,辛勤工作,和工友们苦中作乐。 警方的突击检查截断了这群黑工的后路,万般无奈之下,他们被迫驱车赶往莫克姆海湾拾贝。当地的青年们对中国人心存不满,他们处处刁难,甚至大打出手。于是工头只好带着劳工躲开英国人的时间,专门在涨潮到来之前下海拾贝。但是,此举无疑将自己的生命交到了死神的手中…… 本片根据真实事件改编,荣获2006年圣•塞巴斯蒂安团结奖。A young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China. She is forced to live with eleven other Chinese in a small house in Thetford, Norfolk, working in factories and fields preparing food. The film was inspired by the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, when a gang of Chinese cockle-pickers found themselves trapped tide coming in.