Ten minutes. One immigrant. A stranger who might be God—or just lonely.
An immigrant from Hong Kong now lives in Los Angeles. He deals with his homesickness and sense of loss after encountering a strange old man.
Cinematography
LA light filtered through memory and incense smoke.
Direction
Lai trusts silence more than most feature directors.
Director
Enoch Lai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references Kate Bush's song about Wilhelm Reich's rainmaking machine—fitting for a film about desperate, almost magical solutions to emotional drought.
Enoch Lai shot this as his USC thesis; the temple scenes use actual Los Angeles Buddhist spaces rarely seen on screen, grounding the fantastical in documented immigrant geography.
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