Tin Shui Wai was witness to a few everyday tragedies, and the media lost no time to crown it "the city of sadness", prodding our luckier citizens to send in cosmetics. Ann Hui gives us the gentlest answer to such hysteria. A widowed mother and her teenage son live in a Tin Shui Wai estate. She works in a supermarket, and helps a colleague breaks into her new job. The boy, average in each and every way, grows into adolescence hesitantly. In passing, we find out that the mother has made big sacrifices to her family. The way we are, the way we live; an ode to the salt of the earth. (Filmart)