Lovers on the Road
Lei and her boyfriend Nam have a big fight over an ex of his before moving to Beijing. Now he works in a design firm, and she wanders the city asking other outsiders naive questions: how long have you been in Beijing? What do you miss most? She hooks up with a loquacious Japanese who waits tables in the posh 798 art market, and travels with him to Shanxi for Buddha statues. Will she bed him? Is she taking the initiative or will she let him? Tsang Tsui-shanÂ’s debut feature observes a 200% self-absorbed young woman in perpetual transit, going from nowhere to nowhere.