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[Machine Translation] The long-awaited new film by master director Yim Ho, after a seven-year absence! A baby sold to a poor family living on the water leads a turbulent life. A gem of a human drama based on a true story. --In the late 1940s, a child born to a British soldier and a Hong Kong woman was purchased by a poor Protean couple. The baby is named Hua Chuan and grows up on a ship. His mother loved him without discrimination, even though he was ridiculed. One day, Hua Chuan was encouraged to study by a Catholic priest, and with his mother's encouragement, he got off the ship and began to study letters at the church's night school. When he learns that he is a purchased child, he begins to work himself to the bone as the eldest son. Eventually, he was hired as a scullery maid at the East India Company, which he had longed to work for, and through tireless efforts, he gradually rose to prominence, eventually becoming the first Chinese to hold the post of executive director. But somewhere along the way, Hua Chuan always kept asking himself the question, "Who am I? Time passed, and the time came for Hong Kong to be returned to China. Hua Chuan visits the place where he was once sold as a baby and is told the secret of his birth...
Original Release Year: 2012
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