Semi-autobiographical film by writer-director Wang Xiaoshuai, centered on a family that moved away from Shanghai to Guizhou in the late 1960s and is now preparing to pull up its new roots and go back.

Fearful of attack by the Soviet Union, in the 1960's Chian set up an industrial "third line of defense" away from the seaboard and major cities. The film begins in 1983, when China is discarding the legacy of the Cultural Revolution and gradually modernizing. More ambitious families that are starting to plot how get back to their former homes in the cities where things are changing the fastest. Qinghong's (Gao Yuanyuan) family was one such family. Her father, Wu Zemin (Yan Anlian) growing regret of having uprooted his life for an invasion that never came has turned into dreams of returning to Shanghai. In his quest to secretly relocate his family, Wu Zemin isolates his family, in particular his daughter Qinghong with his attempts to stifle her crush on a local boy, trying to prevent them from establishing local roots so they are ready when the time comes to move.

The film was nominated for Golden Palm and won the Jury Prize at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

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