At dawn on the June morning in 1989 following the brutal repression of student demonstrations in beijing, a young poet flees the bullets, tanks, and soldiers, trying desperately to get back to the flat she shares with he...At dawn on the June morning in 1989 following the brutal repression of student demonstrations in beijing, a young poet flees the bullets, tanks, and soldiers, trying desperately to get back to the flat she shares with her lover. When she discovers him in bed with his estranged wife, she must strike out again - and alone - into the maelstrom of terror and risk that beijing has become.