Director: Wayne Wang, Patrick Lindenmaier |
Writer: Yiyun Li |
Run time: 83 minutes |
Release date: 2007-09-25 |
Floor location: Drama |
Format: DVD |
Production Countries: United States of America |
Spoken Languages: 普通话, English, فارسی |
The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.