Perpetual Motion
Filmfest 2006

Four successful middle-aged women, epitomizing today’s Chinese high society, meet on the eve of the Spring Festival in the opulent mansion of Niuniu, an editor of fashion magazines. It’s her intent to find out who among her friends is secretly seducing her husband. As the party enfolds, the four friends have the chance to open up their hearts for the first time in their lives. Political events, family tragedies and sentimental affairs which seemed deeply buried beneath the modern facade of these women, mark, in reality, all of their lives. The unforgettable past continues to stir their hearts, causing a perpetual motion of passions and repressed desires.