The Golden Era

In the 1930s, as war spreads across China, the young writer Xiao Hong (Tang Wei) leaves home and meets Xiao Jun (William Feng), a fellow writer who becomes her great love. Ann Hui builds the film from memories, with Lu Xun (Wang Zhiwen) and Ding Lin (Hao Lei) moving through the life of a woman always on the road. Xiao Hong sits in a rented room with her pages, the war pressing in, writing.