12 Hours on a Bicycle for $2.60 — A Food Delivery Rider in Bangladesh

Mohammad Al Amin is 21. Every day, he rides an old bicycle through the heat of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, delivering food for an app — earning between 47 and 68 taka (about $0.40–$0.60) per order. On the day we followed him, twelve hours of work came to around 320 taka. About $2.60. But this is not just a story about hard work. Alamin is a university student. He is newly married, running his own small household inside his parents' home — to find out, he says, whether he can stand on his own. And his father is a truck driver, a man who spent his whole life on the road and swore his son would never follow him there. This is a film about two men on the same road. We spent a full day with Alamin — from the morning bazaar he buys for his wife, through the long waits outside restaurants, to the last delivery at 10 PM, made on an empty stomach. CHAPTERS 00:00 The Waiting Rider 03:30 Morning — The Bazaar 09:00 The Stand — Waiting Is the Work 16:00 What the Work Asks 22:00 The Bicycle — Two Reckonings 26:30 The Student 30:00 The Meal He Never Touched 32:00 His Father — The Same Road 38:00 Night — The Return Home — DreamersEye tells the stories of working people across Bangladesh, beyond the capital — one life at a time, with dignity. SUPPORT THIS WORK Patreon: [  / dreamerseyeofficial  ] WATCH NEXT The Clean Hand — the last ear cleaner of Rajshahi: [   • He's Cleaned Ears for 40 Years. He May Be ...  ] The Moving Feast — a train hawker's life: [   • The Hardest Job in Bangladesh? 18 Hours wi...  ] Filmed in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. #Bangladesh #Documentary #FoodDelivery