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Yana is a 24-year-old rural migrant who recently arrived in Chongqing to pursue her "Chinese Dream." Drawn by the glamor and easy riches of China's historic real estate boom, she opens a 'foreigner rental agency' designed to help Chinese real estate developers market their new developments. This business takes a dubious turn when her foreigners are increasingly used in a surreal effort to turn remote rural ghost towns into "globalized booming cities" on the days that outside investors and political leaders visit. When the real estate bubble begins to burst, Yana is forced to sell her company and reassess everything she ever believed in. Filmed over several years, DREAM EMPIRE is both a gripping personal story and a rare on-the-ground chronicle of a critical economic issue of our time.