Bai (Huang Lu), a young woman who has recently graduated from a big-city university, is hired as a saleswoman of herbal medicines and accompanies her boss and a colleague on a business trip to an isolated, mountainous rural village.
Ms. Huang said Ms. Lu acted as a kind of matchmaker among Boston University's Chinese student community, helping people find roommates and make friends, Ms. Huang said.
Ms. Lu went to watch the marathon Monday with two other Chinese international students, said Lucy Huang, another graduate student at the university who had close friends in common with Ms. Lu.