Brief History of a Family

  • Drama
10/15/2024
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Make yourself at home.

A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

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      • Geronimo1967

        The young loner Yuan Sho (Xilun Sun) has an incident at school that sees him helped by the Wei (Muran Lin) who takes him to the nurse. Thats the start of a friendship that sees the injured lad introduced to his friends kindly mum (Ke-Yu Guo) and rather aloof scientist dad (Feng Zu) who take a shine to him as his vulnerability awakens hitherto subdued feelings with the adults whom, it emerges, might have liked more than just the one son - but who had to adhere to the prevailing one-child policy of the time. Yuan Sho clearly has baggage of his own and as the story unfolds you might expect it to take a predictable route, but it doesnt. Indeed, as the plot develops and we learn more about what makes these characters tick, it starts to become qu...

        March 4, 2025

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