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What If - Season 1

Lok Chak Shun, a 1960s Hong Kong premature survivor, sought escape in street comics where he met Lung, a teen gangster mentoring him into petty crimes. When Shun’s autobiographical comics were altered at school, he publicly shamed the vandal—a reclusive art student departing soon. Overwhelmed by guilt, he then uncovered his father’s infidelity and Lung’s escalating gang war. Amid the turmoil, a severed kite string crystallized his crossroads: embracing Lung’s chaos led to imprisonment; pursuing the girl forged an artistic career marred by her abrupt emigration; confronting his father shattered the family, exiling him into solitude. Each path mirrored Hong Kong’s fractured identity—caught between colonial twilight and generational rebellion. The kite, once a childhood solace, now symbolized life’s irreversible pivots: a single frayed thread unraveling into lifetimes of regret or reinvention, bound by choices made in the breath between adolescence and consequence.

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Top Cast

  • Ernesto de Sousa

    Ernesto de Sousa

    Lok Chak-shun

  • Power Chan Kwok-Pong

    Power Chan Kwok-Pong

  • Ng Wing-Sze

    Ng Wing-Sze

  • Ashley Lam Kae-Ning

    Ashley Lam Kae-Ning

  • Chrissie Chau Sau-Na

    Chrissie Chau Sau-Na

  • Ben Yuen Foo-Wah

    Ben Yuen Foo-Wah

  • Tony Wu Tsz-Tung

    Tony Wu Tsz-Tung

  • Tsui Ho-Cheong

    Tsui Ho-Cheong

  • Kevin Chu Kam-Yin

    Kevin Chu Kam-Yin

Overview

Lok Chak Shun, a 1960s Hong Kong premature survivor, sought escape in street comics where he met Lung, a teen gangster mentoring him into petty crimes. When Shun’s autobiographical comics were altered at school, he publicly shamed the vandal—a reclusive art student departing soon. Overwhelmed by guilt, he then uncovered his father’s infidelity and Lung’s escalating gang war. Amid the turmoil, a severed kite string crystallized his crossroads: embracing Lung’s chaos led to imprisonment; pursuing the girl forged an artistic career marred by her abrupt emigration; confronting his father shattered the family, exiling him into solitude. Each path mirrored Hong Kong’s fractured identity—caught between colonial twilight and generational rebellion. The kite, once a childhood solace, now symbolized life’s irreversible pivots: a single frayed thread unraveling into lifetimes of regret or reinvention, bound by choices made in the breath between adolescence and consequence.

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