Every Spring China's cities are plunged into chaos, as all at once, a tidal wave of humanity attempts to return home by train. It's the Chinese New Year and millions of migrant factory workers are desperate to return to their rural villages and to the families they left behind to seek work in the booming coastal cities.

The Zhangs abandoned their young children to find work in the city in order to earn better money and create a better life for their children, but sixteen years later it seems that their hopes for a better future have been undone by their very absence. Their daughter Qin who was left behind, has grown into adolescence crippled by a sense of abandonment and drops out of school as an act of rebellion and ending up joining her parents in urban factory work. The decision is a heart-breaking blow for the parents and in classic cinema vérité́ style, Last Train Home follows the Zhangs' attempts to change their daughter's course and repair their ruptured family.

Intimate and candid, Last Train Home is the work of Chinese-Canadian director Lixie Fan, and paints a human portrait of the dramatic changes sweeping China. It will be released on UK DVD on 11th October 2010 by Dogwoof at the RRP of £14.99. The only extra featured is s trailer.