Leah is travelling the world when she eventually settles in Beijing, China, where she meets Master Sun Zhan who teaches her the art of weiqi. Her path crosses with American Chinese Richard whose family had sent him to Beijing to arrange his grandfather's ashes. A romance soon blossoms between them.
Cinematography
Beijing locations captured with genuine affection
Production
Rare Western-Chinese co-production from 2001
Director
Jule Gilfillan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Jule Gilfillan never made another feature after this — a one-and-done in the truest sense.
This arrived during a brief wave of American indies shooting in China, when co-productions seemed possible before geopolitics soured.