Yin Jia and Tong Tong are two teenage girls living together in a colour-drenched, all-consuming vision of Changsha, China. They shoplift, pelt oranges, and share a bed. But when Tong Tong falls for a drug dealer, Yin Jia’s love for her drives her to risk everything to keep her close.

Based on director Lilly Hu’s own lived experience, this vivid portrait of girlhood — and the toxic desires born from trying to enforce love — is a remarkable debut. Dreamy, undeniably girly, and at the same time painfully real, 1 Girl Infinite reveals a side of China rarely seen in mainstream Chinese media.

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