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Completed - MANDARIN - Drama - 87 minutes

Log Line

After his son died in an accident, Cheng approached the wife of the driver responsible and asked to be given another child. Amongst court's order, medical bill and Cheng's wife terrorising behaviour, Zhen faces the paradoxes of an immoral decision.

Year of production : 2012

Director(s) : Emily TANG
Writer(s) : Jie HAN, Emily TANG, Fang DONG
Cast : Shuting YANG, Taishen CHENG, Jing LIANG, Jin GAO

Producer(s) : Jian YANG (Sunny Sky Culture & Media Investment Co., Ltd), Keung CHOW

Synopsis

A village in southern China. YU and MAN have a little daughter Yaya while richer neighbour CHENG and wife ZHEN have a son ZHUANG. When Zhuang dies in a car accident on Man’s electrical tricycle, the court orders Yu to pay 120,000 dollars even Man is also badly injured. As Zhen confesses she is unable to have another child, Cheng gets drunk and intrudes Yu’s house, demanding her to give him a new son. A distressed Yu finds herself caught up in an inevitable tragic event on the road to redemption.

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Country(ies) : CHINA

Festivals and Awards

San Sebastian FF 2012 Official selection
Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2012 Panorama


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