SYNOPSIS

A modest family is destined for tragedy due to the tense rivalry between two teenage stepsisters. In a t of rage, Tao Lan kills her stepsister. Seventeen years later, she is released from prison for a brief holiday. A female guard escorts the solitary Tao Lan, now a stranger to life outside prison. Late in the evening, the two women arrive at the new home of Tao Lan’s aged parents to face the fragile emotional exchanges of a painful family reunion…

FILM DETAILS & FESTIVALS

1999 – 1h25 – Drama – China / Italy

With: Liu Lin, Li Bingbing

Venice – Silver Lion

Toronto

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