Kaili Blues

Chen Sheng is a doctor in Kaili, a village in the subtropical Chinese province of Guizhou. He sleepwalks through life until he decides to go looking for his nephew Weiwei. He promised the child's mother on her deathbed to look after the boy, but the child has been abandoned somewhere by his criminal brother. Chen is encouraged in his travel plans by an older colleague. She gives Chen a photo, a shirt and a cassette tape: memories of an old love that she wants to return to him now he is severely ill. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)