Breaking the Silence

Gong Li stars in this lowkey drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son Sun Liying Li struggles to care for her hearingimpaired child Zheng Da Gao Xin after her taxi driver husband divorces her After Zheng Da gets his hearing aid smashed in a fight with classmates Sun Liying sets out to raise 5000 yuan a small fortune to buy him a replacement A friend helps her set up an unauthorized bookstall which soon gets raided by the police Later she splits her time delivering newspapers and cleaning house for a rich businessman This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival