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A pair of sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 90s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty and their father’s drug addiction.
Synopsis
Perhaps we form our likings later in life, whereas our childhood memories shape what makes us feel at home. Yuan moves to Hong Kong with her mother from Hunan at the age of eight to reunite with her father. Everything in the city is dazzling and new to her. However, the family faces poverty and language barriers. Worse yet, her father, who is a drug addict, is temperamental and is often sent to prison, causing him to disappear from the family for long periods of time. This certainly is not the dream home Yuan has been looking forward to. All she wants is her younger sister to be reunited with them as soon as possible. Out of fear, the sisters try to please their father in their early years, but as soon as they reach adolescence, they start to resist and escape from him. However, even after they grow up and move away from him, Yuan realises that all the people she loves and treasures turn out to resemble her father in her childhood memories.
Sasha Chuk
Sasha Chuk majored in Chinese literature and sociology at the Faculty of Arts, the University of Hong Kong. In 2020, she won the First Feature Film Initiative by Create Hong Kong with the screenplay Fly Me to the Moon, an adaptation of her novel. This is her feature directorial debut.
Stanley Kwan
Stanley Kwan is a Hong Kong film director and producer. His best-known works include Rouge (1987), Center Stage (1991), Lan Yu (2001) and Everlasting Regret (2005). He has won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Rouge and Best Director at the Golden Horse Awards for Lan Yu. For Center Stage, he won Best Director at the Chicago International Film Festival, while actress Maggie Cheung won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival.