A love story set in a Chinese labor camp during the Cultural Revolution follows Zhang, a rightist poet made impotent, and Huang, a woman jailed for promiscuity, and their passionate, ill-fated love affair...
After spending half his life in Mao's labour camps, a Chinese writer is released. Now approaching middle-age, he travels abroad to lecture and to visit relatives and lovers. There, he finds himself faced with the choice of staying in the West or retu...