Delightful, slowly developing tragi-comedy in a mostly abandoned Chinese mining town. A soap salesman arrives with bad intentions. This alone is sub textually genius because even amongst themselves, Chinese admittedly suffer from cleanliness and hygiene difficulties. While the soap salesman attempts to apply his chosen trade and stay one step ahead of the local law enforcement, he becomes embroiled with other sad sack inhabitants of this lonely town. Static camera and slowly developing scenes with long shots thrown in here and there, it is reminiscent of Jarmusch. That being said it stands on its own as well as providing tongue-in-cheek social critique. A curious statement to me is the fact that the only self proclaimed Christian in the group is the only Moral and empathetic character? There's just more than meets the eye going on here and a great little "side trip" of a movie.