The connection between Chen and northeast China is more than overview. He is a witness, but he is also northeast China itself. Chen Haoyang, a seventy-four-year-old retired air force pilot, has cancer. He decides to embark alone on a journey.
Haoyang Chen
The connection between Chen and northeast China is more than overview. He is a witness, but he is also northeast China itself. Chen Haoyang, a seventy-four-year-old retired air force pilot, has cancer. He decides to embark alone on a journey.
In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him.
Chen Sheng goes off in search of his nephew who has been abandoned by his father. Along the way, he encounters numerous people from his past and also those from his future.
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.