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Meet up with the Wu family father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. These are arranging to totally sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and also to begin a new, free life in america. Initially, their future seems well-assured. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan s disillusionment turns him toward his first love, poetry. Leaving his studies, he assumes a number of menial jobs as Pingping works for a wealthy widow as a cook and housekeeper. As Pingping and Taotao slowly modify to American life, Nan still feels a strange attachment to his homeland, though he violently disagrees with Communist policy. But severing all ties including his love for a woman who rejected him in his youth proves to be more difficult than he would have ever imagined. "
