A 22-minute Hong Kong short that'll wreck you and you'll thank it.
A homeless woman wakes up on a pedestrian bridge. A young man shows up and asks whether she has a home. Thus, it triggers a series of memories in the woman's past with her father and husband. Are any of her 'past' real? Or are they hallucinations appeared moments before she dies?
Direction
Fala Chen's debut — controlled, devastating restraint.
Acting
Law Lok-Lam's wordless final scene destroys.
Writing
Family trauma told through what's NOT said.
Director
Fala Chen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fala Chen wrote this after her own father's death; she funded it herself when no studio would touch a Cantonese short.
The taxi serves as Hong Kong's confessional — in a city of tiny flats, cars become the only private space for grief.
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