A wealthy Hong Kong housewife, Anna, lives a spoiled, bored life. When her husband suddenly leaves, taking the money and prestige with him, she refuses to accept her changed circumstances. Her chauffeur, Fai, who lives in an ugly barrack across the border in Shenzhen, is trying to get his wife—whose second pregnancy is a violation of the Chinese one-child policy—over the border so she can give birth in Hong Kong.
Acting
Carina Lau's unraveling without a single scream.
Cinematography
The Shenzhen-Hong Kong border as silent character.
Direction
Flora Lau's debut: restraint as radical choice.
Director
Flora Lau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The one-child policy created 'birth tourists'—pregnant mainlanders risking everything to reach Hong Kong hospitals before labor.
Flora Lau developed this at Cannes' Cinéfondation; it's one of the rare Hong Kong-mainland co-productions to treat the border as emotional terrain rather than plot device.
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