Following her daughter Zuer’s fatal accident, Jin’s shocked to discover that she’s now responsible for Zuer’s IVF embryo. With the fate of the embryo in her hands, she must confront her first daughter she gave up after a teenage pregnancy.
Programme Strand: C-FILMS IN FOCUS
Tracing the life of Ai, a woman living in Taipei after her divorce, a gentle portrayal unfolds—one shaped by three generations of women bound through unresolved intimacy. A sudden loss brings questions of motherhood, kinship, and care back into view, forcing a long-entangled mother-daughter relationship to confront what has remained unspoken. Reproduction here is no longer treated as an inevitable path within a fixed life script. Instead, queer, transnational, and non-nuclear perspectives open up new ways of imagining family. As IVF and practices of care are woven quietly into everyday life, motherhood shifts from a prescribed role to an ethical and emotional process, continually negotiated. In the restrained yet quietly powerful performances of Sylvia Chang and Karena Lam, a naturalistic visual language gathers emotional force, allowing new forms of kinship to emerge beyond the structures of the conventional family. (Edited by Crystal Xinjie Wang and Xiyun Li, based on Viv Wang’s and Yang Wu’s notes)
Year of Production: 2024
Duration: 126 min
Genres: Drama Family LGBTQ+
Production Countries/Regions: Taiwan
Dialogue Language(s): Mandarin
Subtitle Language(s): English
Director(s): Xi Huang
Producer(s): Dongxu Shao, Hsin-Li Liu
Executive Producer(s): Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Sylvia Chang
Premiere Status: UK Premiere
Key Casts: Sylvia Chang, Karena Lam, Eugenie Liu
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