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Chinese period-drama on DVD provides memories of home for migrant workers at a trading post run by immigrants from Fujian Province in southern China deep in the Amazon rainforest gold boomtown of Bensdorp, Suriname. Almost pure gold is the preferred currency in Bensdorp where customers' gold is weighed out on scales for payment. So called, "New Chinese" migrants from Fujian Province in southern China have established several trading posts in Bensdorp, a gold mining boomtown, to sell Brazilian gold miners, or ?garimpeiros?, supplies, food and fuel. Suriname.