Give Me A Ride(2022)

Give Me A Ride is a Chinese drama following a divorced taxi driver in Chongqing whose mundane existence fractures when he picks up a mysterious woman returning home after twenty years abroad. Her arrival awakens long-dormant desires and forces him to confront buried resentments—his paralyzed mother's care, his estranged gay son's rebellion. Set against the city's dark tunnels and perpetual fog, the film charts a man adrift between desire and duty, hope and resignation. Blending gritty realism with dreamlike sequences, Give Me A Ride captures the quiet desperation of lives derailed by circumstance, where redemption feels impossibly distant.