Iron Road, a Canada-China co-production film tells the story of the Chinese workers who traveled West in the 1880s to build the transcontinental railway throughout Canada. Starring Sam Neill, Peter O’Toole, Sun Li and Canadian actor, Luke MacFarlane, the film offers up a love story, but also presents a little-known slice of Canadian history. Chinese-Canadian director, David Wu brings us the plot of a Chinese girl called Little Tiger who dresses as a boy to survive in an alpha male society. After deciding to travel and work on building the railroad for $1 a day with hopes of finding her lost father, the young Chinese girl falls for the son of the railroad contractor.

A 95-minute feature-film version of the movie opens July 28th in Toronto for limited release across the country. A two-part mini-series of the story will air on CBC beginning August 9th.

Via CBC.