Wai-King Cheung

A tender and compelling tale of mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings and vanishes from her parents' orbit. Maya, for reasons of her own, leaves haunting clues in late-night calls to her brother, carefully avoiding detection by the two people who love her most.

A young Chinese woman looks back on her childhood in the Village of Stone and her struggle with solitude, silence and sexual abuse. The difficulties of her past are contrasted with her present life in a Beijing apartment living with her Western lover. X rated, contains graphic violence and explicit sex.