That could pass for some...movie-thing.
The thing starts off in some poor, rural province in China, and the main characters were a boy and a girl. They're stuck with the same, boring old lives for the longest time, the girl wanting to go off to other places, and the boy being this meek little tyke who keeps getting bullied by other kids. His older sister ran away from home in order to find a living for herself elsewhere, and his parents got mad at him for it...promptly beating him up. The boy, wanting to get away from it all, pleads with the girl to run away with him, using this one high-class train ticket that his sister left for him. It seats for two married people; so the girl would go, pretending to be his wife. The girl tells him to wait it out, to see if there was one last thing in this province that would give them reason to stay.
One day, at a train station, some jackass starts going on about how the boy's sister went off and became a slut. The girl got angry and stormed off, the boy following...worried about his friend's temper. They come to a point where she stops walking, turns around, and apologizes. She then asks where the next train station should be. The boy doesn't know; so they both set off walking...running, really, following the railroad tracks. They meet up with other people, walking the same road, and they pass by the evening scenery, the lit cities and stuff like that.
In the morning, they make it to Beijing central (how, I don't know). The girl goes, "welcome to Beijing central!" and the boy promptly sticks his head in the trash and throws up. She apologizes to him for dragging him along like this. He looks at her and half-playfully (half sick of her apologizing) calls her "roshi", which meant something in my dream, but I forgot what it was. She grows incensed and calls him "toto", which was the dog from the Wizard of Oz.
They wander around the city first, amazed at how large everything was. They also managed to buy some new clothes (with what money, this dream never told me) and went off to look for a train station. They decide to save the high class ticket for later and buy economy seat tickets instead. As they wait in the train, the girl and boy start thinking of the parents back home and how they were doing, whether or not they realized that the children had left. A car pulls up beside the train under their window, and out comes a woman with bright orange hair (in my dream, she had the face of my student's mother). The orange hair was something she did while in the city, but the kids recognized the woman as the boy's mother. The mother looked up and saw her son just as the train started up and began moving away. The girl asks if the boy's alright, and the boy turns, glaring at her, and calls her "roshi". She, in turn, puffs her cheeks and calls him "toto".
The rest of the dream happens on the train. The children grow up and pretty much forget the life they used to live. Except for...there's this one instance where, the girl thinks back to her old home, looks out the train window at night, and tries to see the lights of her province. Then she finds that there is an entire streak of light that are a number of different fields, and she realizes that it would be impossible to find her poor province in the midst of all those other provinces. The boy thinks she's being stupid and calls her "roshi". She doesn't respond; so the boy grows quiet after a while and pulls her in an embrace.
Their friendship deepens into a "sort-of" romance as the dream progresses, and they learn the layout of the train. The back few cars are used for young artists, an easel and canvas set up in each compartment. The boy takes the girl's hand and leads her to the last compartment where they make love for the first time. Of course, they get caught, and the boy gets beaten nearly to death. They break his leg and leave them both in the back compartment.
The girl dresses his wounds, finding a walking stick for him to use. As he's lying there while she cleans the cuts and bruises, she kisses his cheek and calls him "toto...-jijii" (jijii, which is Japanese for grandfather). He sulks and calls her "roshi", and she just smiles softly.
In the next scene, the two have aged a lot, their hair graying out. Still, they were both very happy. Before, the boy was stuck in a wheel chair for a while because of the injuries sustained from getting beat up by the train security, but here, he was able to stand up and revert back to the stick. The woman, folding the chair up, claps and smiles at his early attempts at walking again.
The last scene is sort of weird. It's a performance in a first-class compartment of the train (using the ticket from long ago) where they both wear suits, the collars stuck on the top of their heads. They flail their arms in a sort of synchronized motion, and little by little, the collar slips down their head, revealing their foreheads. Then the woman's head pops through, and she's wearing an earthy orange wild wig, which she pats into place. The man's head pops out too, and he's wearing another kind of funny wig. He tosses an arm over the woman's shoulder and kisses her cheek, smiling and calling her "roshi". She pretends to sulk, crossing her arms and calling him "toto-jijii".
(blackout)
Lol...that was it.