This personal project from Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai is a poignant family melodrama. The story begins in 1983, when the Cultural Revolution had finished and Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms were taking root in the big cities. Factory worker Zemin (Yao Anlian) is desperate to return to Shanghai, but his teenage schoolgirl daughter Qinhong (Gao Yuanyuan) regards this rural backwater as home, and to her father’s fury has begun seeing a local apprentice.
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