The trailer prepares you for a "West-meets-East" situation: young Asian-American travels to China to visit her dying grandmother, whose cancer diagnosis is kept hidden from. The film barely gets past that notion: in a modernizing China, your life still belongs not to you but to your family, and people decide what's best for you till the very end. The film successfully avoids the slippery pitfall of judging the culture, and shows it as it is. But there isn't enough material here for a feature length film - even though real-life subtitle at the end knocks you off your feet.
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