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Aspiring young detective Xiang Li Xiqi takes on the case of a stolen research paper at school. With help from his friend Ren Shirou, he investigates a web of clues and classmates’ suspicious actions. As doubts rise, Xiang must rely on his sharp instincts to uncover the truth and prove himself.
Back in her family home, Wenqian Zhang settles in with her camera. A Long Journey Home tells the story of this cohabitation via a relational and temporal journey that stirs up emotions while challenging contemporary China’s “making a family” from the inside. This is a brilliant quest for emancipation seeking a place among one’s own people.
China at the end of the 1990s, lunch in an extended family. The father works in distant Shenzhen and is rarely home. The grandmother cooks and keeps an eye on the children. The air is filled with levity, longing and exhaustion.
