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After her seventeen-year-old daughter is killed while volunteering in Tiananmen Square, a mother hides the truth as friends and colleagues withdraw. Twenty-five years later, visiting Hong Kong, she meets a student supporting Occupy Central and the Umbrella Movement and fears he will suffer the same fate; contact with the Tiananmen Mothers forces her to face the crackdown again.
Five actors portray different stages of Wang Dan’s life at once: childhood, activism during the 1989 movement, imprisonment, exile, and an idealized poetic self. Their dialogue and imagery of a playground and carousel explore the tension between ideals and reality and the lasting emotional effects of exile.
After her seventeen-year-old daughter is killed while volunteering in Tiananmen Square, a mother hides the truth as friends and colleagues withdraw. Twenty-five years later, visiting Hong Kong, she meets a student supporting Occupy Central and the Umbrella Movement and fears he will suffer the same fate; contact with the Tiananmen Mothers forces her to face the crackdown again.
Five actors portray different stages of Wang Dan’s life at once: childhood, activism during the 1989 movement, imprisonment, exile, and an idealized poetic self. Their dialogue and imagery of a playground and carousel explore the tension between ideals and reality and the lasting emotional effects of exile.