Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice has been for the Chinese an important family occasion however will this timehonoured tradition become obsolete The children head back to their family home in the country to see their elderly mother All seems well on the surface but each faces their own crisis and difficulty The eldest brother struggles to raise several kids the well off second sister plans to leave Hong Kong estranged from her husband the younger sister keeps up appearances and the youngest brother commits to the difficult career as a farmer The cheerful animated conversation at the dinner table is overshadowed by simmering anxieties