Haipeng Xu

In a southern city of the 90s China, a 9-year-old girl, Chichi, moves in with her grandmother, aunt, and cousin when her mother is going through surgery. Witnessing the struggles of the women in her family, Chichi ponders over her own path as she drifts towards the brink of womanhood.

Just because she arrived three minutes earlier in the world, the elder sister of the twins was separated from the other, and was sent thousands of miles away from home. The elder sister (Chan) was forced to leave their hometown, and struggled for her life in Chengdu. The younger sister (Juan) stayed in their rural hometown and continued her routine life. However, two girls who looked exactly like each other actually pursued distinct paths in two entirely different cities. Their experiences of growing up as women developed in parallel.

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