A home invasion unravels three decades of family lies — and nobody's hands are clean.
A blind Asian-American woman lives with her son and daughter-in-law. The two women barely tolerate one another and the son, a doctor simply turns himself off to avoid any confrontation with either. Into this environment, an armed intruder breaks in. He is eventually revealed to be an old family friend who was sent to prison for murdering his father, but he insists that the older woman's husband, now deceased, was the actual murderer. Slowly, all the characters have to explore past hidden secrets about themselves.
Acting
Lisa Lu's matriarch — volcanic restraint, decades of rage.
Writing
Secrets revealed like peeling onions, each layer stings worse.
Director
Anna Chi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anna Chi's directorial debut, adapted from her own stage play — the theatrical DNA shows in the single-location intensity.
Lisa Lu was 71 here, already a legend — this role bridged her Hollywood era (The Last Emperor) and her later Chinese film stardom.
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