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To a medical student in his most hungry, restless, and curious 20s, the whole world can feel too pornographic. Solid knowledge of human anatomy doesn't help him grasp the chaotic desire that attracts him to three disparate women-the fairylike hometown first love, the marriageable college girlfriend, and the sensuous working-woman. It's the 1990s when China just opened herself up to exciting opportunities and new risks, and youth and love were traded as commodities. Women in this crule new world crushes his burning passion, leaving him nothing but emotional pains. As he looks back at his youth as a grownup man, he obtains a new understanding of desire, love, and what it means to be alive.

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Sales Points

• FEMALE FILMMAKER
• For the fans of SUMMER PALACE, I AM NOT MADAME BOVARY, SKIPTRACE, LEAGUE OF GODS
• US Virtual Theatrical Run
• From the director and actress of award-winning LOST IN BEIJING, DAM STREET, BUDDHA MOUNTAIN

Press Quotes

'Sensuous, stylish...its romantic sensibility is voluptuous to the core.Helmer Li is on surer footing here with the sort of material that has always suited her best: complex women in complicated relationships. Li's protags are sexually assertive, her love scenes wantonly sensuous even within the boundaries of Chinese screening standards.'

     —Maggie Lee, Variety

'100 Films to Help You Understand Modern China'

     —Staff, Radii China

'Cinematographer and co-editor Jian Zeng has no trouble injecting the proceedings with erotically charged visual rhythms that are accentuated by the eclectic compositions of Takeshi Kobayashi and Howie B.'

     —John Berra, V Cinema