Piercing Brightness (2013)

Director
Shezad Dawood

Main cast
Houda Echouafni; Cheng Kok; Chen Ko

Genres
Drama, Sci-Fi

Description
A young Chinese boy and girl are sent on a mission to retrieve the 'Glorious 100' - agents who were sent to this planet millennia ago to study and observe.


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