"We've been strangers for a long time, but fate has sent us on the same path again."
Lin Yongjie gets a call from her ex-girlfriend Yuan Qing and the two meet. Yuan Qing reveals that she's pregnant, and wants Lin Yongjie to go with her to get an abortion. What follows is a slow unraveling of the complicated emotions and feelings over the course of one evening.
Qiao Fei Cai
Chia Yun Tsai
Lin Yongjie gets a call from her ex-girlfriend Yuan Qing and the two meet. Yuan Qing reveals that she's pregnant, and wants Lin Yongjie to go with her to get an abortion. What follows is a slow unraveling of the complicated emotions and feelings over the course of one evening.
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
Wang Tiemei, a single mother, loses her job and moves, befriending neighbor Xiaoye who appears cheerful but is depressed. Their bond grows as Tiemei navigates relationships with her ex-husband causing trouble.
The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie follows, determined to find him and bring him back.
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiring artist, she secretly documents her harrowing journey with her drawings.