男主騎士Secareanu 是羅曼人， 和太太Elena (Anamaria Marinca)、帶著兩個孩子住在倫敦. 騎士晚上送披薩賺錢養家，Elena白天在醫院干清潔工。一家人生活拮據，于是在男主吃飯工具摩托車被搶后，他的世界崩潰了。 正如他老板所說‘沒車就沒工作，沒工作就沒錢，沒錢沒法活’，這意味著他要不惜一切代價在上班前找回自己失去的東西。。。換句話說，要么在接下去的24小時內盡其所能巡回車駕；要么另覓出路以養家糊口。

With its title, this British drama instantly recalls Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 neorealist classic The Bicycle Thieves. Yet writer/director Matt Chambers has astutely turned his debut feature into an involving story about surviving in an unforgiving world amid the complexities of the current immigrant experience. The city is beautifully shot, eschewing the usual landmarks in favour of brutalist residential blocks and high streets peppered with Sports Directs and Claire’s Accessories. This might be the most London ever seen on screen – impressive considering the film clocks in at under 80 minutes. . Grounded in gritty reality, the movie plays as a kitchen sink social drama, Chambers constantly throwing discussion points into proceedings as Secareanu’s character goes about his dilemma, The Rider pushed to the limit. If anything, the film seems a little too slow – it takes us seven minutes just to get to the title card – and for a film that is just 75 minutes long, it feels a lot longer.

電影The Bike Thief 是一部出色的作品，片子頗具風格、畫面寫實、色彩優美、張馳有到。導演熟練地通過電影語言講述了普通人的故事，他們的背景、他們的選擇、以及選擇之后他們的掙扎。 這部片子作為新晉導演Chamber 的處女作，可圈可點、頗具可看性。