"Border Town" is an independent original documentary filmed and produced by undergraduates from the Department of Drama, Film and Television Literature, School of Literature, Southwest University, and directed by Chen Yixian (Chen Yuzhou), a junior at that time.

The film was shot during the Spring Festival of 20 13. After living with the vagrants for one month, the creative staff understood the real living conditions of the vagrants, restored their existence as "people" and dialectically reflected on the reasons for the formation of the "vagrants" group with the lens. Director Chen Yixian hopes that through this film, more people can understand the real life of vagrants living at the bottom of society.

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"Border Town" movie plot: the protagonist was stolen in his hometown and finally embarked on the road of derailment and begging; Grandma Deng's two daughters are unwilling to bear the responsibility of raising, leaving her grandmother to apply for social security and waiting for her imprisoned son to return; Lao Liu, who is over eighty years old, got on the train for the ideal of freedom and wandered to Changsha Railway Station, ready to go to the rescue station to cheat the train ticket.

The three lines of the film are intertwined, trying to objectively present the group image of the homeless and arouse the audience's thinking about the social welfare security system. There are many kinds in the world, and every tramp has his own story.

This film attempts to objectively show their struggles and desires, dignity and desires, dependence on others' help and exploitation of loopholes in the welfare system in the form of diaries, and explore the defects of social welfare in China.