Had the opportunity to see this at the San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival. It probably wouldn't have been my first choice, but a friend who is a big Joan Chen fan really wanted to see it and since I didn't get to see any other films, I went.
It's a story about the Tony Ayre's (the director) life in Australia (and Hong Kong) growing up with a mother who moved from man to man, place to place, dragging her children along with her. She's a beautiful woman who gets men to fall in love with her, but depends on them for her and her childrens' income and well-being. This dependency ultimately leads these men to leave her driving her into a state of alcoholism, chronic depression, and attempted suicide leaving her 10ish year old son and 12ish year old daughter to deal with her self-absorbed nonsense.
The film takes almost directly from Ayres' life and from what I understood, followed it very closely. In fact, he and his sister make an appearance at the end of the film. It's a sad, sad story and I feel like it's been told so many times before, but the acting was excellent, the music was wonderful, and the film was well made in general. Sometimes a film can be a therapeutic release for an artist, and I give Tony Ayres four stars for telling his story.