Hao Zhao

Wenhui believes he was born to be a goalkeeper, even though nobody remembers how he first got into football. The odds of saving a penalty are against him, but he knows that when confusing events happen, there is comfort in the structure of the game.

After years of trying to escape her mother’s control and avoid her fate, Qingshui, a woman in her 30s living in Shanghai, finds herself unwittingly succumbing to the same behaviors as her mother and reliving her life. When her mother dies, Qingshui realizes she is stuck in her marriage and struggles to once again chart her own course.

In the Summer of 2008, an 8-year-old boy pays a short visit to his father in Hong Kong, applying for permanent identity card. As the visit comes to an end, they find it increasingly difficult to ask what they want from each other.