Known for Acting
An interweaving tale of 3 characters as they navigate various struggles dealing with health, loss, dreams, and unfulfillment. Lu Bai Cheng is a bartender who comes home nightly to his mentally ailing wife and two children. Across town, Bai Rong, a music teacher and wife to a wealthy businessman, is searching for answers to her amenorrhoea. Bai Rong's father-in-law, a retired soldier, is facing his own difficulties as well - needing a full-time caregiver after the death of his wife.
Endless dog days of summer weigh heavily on the impoverished suburb of Changsha where a young mother, Lulu, works as a dancer in a cheap nightclub. Coming home late one night, she discovers that her boyfriend Bai Long has disappeared with their baby. Her desperate search takes her to a transvestite bar where gay man Sunny is performing; he knows the whereabouts of the child’s father. A deal is struck between the odd couple whose lives are now fatefully intertwined.
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
