Above the water — Episode 2

The government learns to swim first. Put a formation in the water, it'll float up once first. Like everything we refuse to admit.

Gotta have it. The water's already at the edge. We've got to move the old man somewhere. So we throw down a pad to catch him.

Why pull all this out? After digging, we'll chip in for two mahjong tiles at night. Kid, there's no road ahead. It's flooded.

What's that got to do with you, young man? That road ahead is soaked through with floodwater. Better turn around and take the detour. This one dig moves three generations at once.

This iron's rusted through, can't hold the weight. Last month it was eight毛 a pound. Last month people still went down this street. Where did you run off to yourself?

Tomorrow morning at noon, at the dock. You get that? He went to the riverbank.