Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life?Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.The latest idea involves spending every last dime they have putting Bai Jian up in a posh boarding school so that Hei J...

Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life?Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.The latest idea involves spending every last dime they have putting Bai Jian up in a posh boarding school so that Hei J...