Sasha, a young Chinese woman studying in the USA, is four months pregnant from a fling in Beijing with Yang, a nan dan, or male actor who plays female roles in the Beijing Opera. Yang also had a liaison with Boshen, a white American deported by the Chinese Government for helping a Western journalist on a story about AIDS. Interrupting her first year of college in Omaha (Nebraska), Sasha travels to San Francisco for an abortion. However, arriving in the city she is assailed by doubts, while Boshen tries to convince her to keep the baby and set up a family together in the hope of baiting Yang to America.
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| Wayne Wang |
| Wayne Wang is a key figure in the development of independent American filmmaking, alternating major Hollywood studio films such as The Joy Luck Club (1993), Maid in Manhattan (2002) and Last Holiday (2006), with smaller independent works like Smoke (1995), Blue in the Face (1995, co-directed with Paul Auster), The Center of the World (2001) and Because of Winn-Dixie (2005). He is competing in this year’s San Sebastian Festival Official Selection with A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007). |
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