Happy Dreams is Jia Pingwa’s “novel” of migrant workers lives in Xi’an, China. I exploit novel loosely as it’s modeled on an true Happy Liu, a schoolmate of Jia’s. You don’t learn any of the backstory until eventually the author notes after the novel, that's disappointing. I didn’t enjoy the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CUjpwn-mPk