A visa, a borrowed bed, and a question nobody asks: do they even want this 'better life'?
J and Jacky are good friends who attend the same school. J is from a single-parent family, and will be taken care by Jacky’s family whenever his mother has to return to Mainland to renew her visa; such kind of story is not an isolated case. These families have been uprooted for a “better future” in Hong Kong, but is this “future” that the children really long to have? A Chinese saying: “How does one understand the joy of fish, if one is not a fish?” Will the adults really understand what the children want?
Direction
Wong's patient observation lets silence scream.
Production
Minimal crew, maximum intimacy—feels like trespassing.
Director
Wong Siu Pong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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