Nice, focused domestic melodrama. A Chinese man, educated and urbane, comes to stay with his grown daughter who has been living in Spokane, Washington. Slowly subterranean conflicts surface. Meanwhile he connects, improbably, with an Iranian woman his age. They have no language in common but their shared isolation in this strange land allows them to come together.
Nothing is really resolved here. After an emotional scene, he leaves, leaving us with the sense of having witnessed just another incident in their two lives, albeit one with emotional residue. Cross-cultural issues are left present but understated...another plus.
The whole thing was under-played. Good work all around.
5
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