Cher Pang Hiu-Yan

Raymond is a boyish thirty-something content with his wife Nancy and son Kai Zhen who studies K2. Nancy decides to spur up Kai Zhen's "talents" with an onslaught of extracurricular activities. They are tickets to a handful of certificates and awards so that Kai Zhen will not be overshadowed by other kids and may receive placement in more elite schools. Disapproving of the move, Raymond hopes his son could enjoy his childhood. Nancy insists and asks Raymond to find Kai Zhen a referee for school enrolment. In the meanwhile, Raymond was sacked and had to leave his job of twenty years. A painful journey begins with his job hunt and eventual sale of his own favourite toys and pleasures. For the sake of his son, he swallows his pride and begs his old boss to be his son’s referee.

In a world where only the abuser and the abused exist, suffering and torture are the only outcomes amid the silent cries. 10 year-old Minnie, kidnapped six years ago, is not the only victim. The kidnapper Ha abducts little girls for their youth and immaculate skin in order to create his “masterpiece”. After six years, spared her life, Minnie is all obedience to Ha, even wishing to be part of the sadistic killer’s tour de force. Unfortunately, she is not the perfect collection for him. To Minnie, Ha has become her lifeline, shelter and everything. When the line between the perpetrator and victim blurs, who takes ownership and control over the destiny of the other?

GOOD TAKE is an omnibus of five short stories with 85 minutes duration, filled with suspense, surprise etc. The ending of each story is never what it seems….

After a bar brawl with an off-duty cop, aspiring thug Fan (Neo Yau, Fire Lee’s gonzo Robbery) is sentenced to three months in juvenile detention like Hong Kong’s Sha Tsui Detention Center, which practices military-style rehabilitation. Insults and abuse are core tenets of the treatment, carried out by the bored, jaded staff, where an occasional true believer lingers among the guards...

Two men, a suit and tie by day, turn urban strollers at night and loiter aimlessly around the labyrinth of streets, MTR stations, bars and playgrounds, seeking an escapade from responsibilities that weigh heavily on the mind and fatigue that never goes away. A young woman who has all the time to kill goes to movies and private gigs and answers a stream of inconsequential calls. For a doomsday believer who distributes leaflets to ‘help’ non-believer, it’s Apocalypse Now! It’s inevitable their paths cross at some junctures just as the night passes and a new day dawns.

Security guard Cheung is a loving father who takes good care of his children. As his kids grow older, they have their own lives and that leaves Chueng feeling lonely. He displaces his fatherly love onto his colleague Sheung's young children instead. This innocent act, however, makes his daughter suspect that Cheung and Sheung are having an affair and a small incident risks being blown out of scale.

While his two friends have already mapped their respective futures, Poon simply wants to get a good score in his second attempt at the HKCEE and stay in his own school. However, Poon gets another disappointing score, and his future is suddenly up in the air. Every year, some celebrate the fruits of their labor, while others dash around the city for their last hope at higher education. Poon may just be one of the latter, but he is also one of us, struggling to rise from academic mediocrity for a better life.