Director Liu Jiayin casts her parents and herself as fictionalized members of a Beijing family that has fallen on hard times and ekes out an existence by making bags out of oxhide for sale.

Jia Huifen
as Mother

Liu Jiayin
as Daughter

Liu Zaiping
as Father
CinemaSerf
There is one scene in this film where the dad is explaining to his family about his own father’s cure for constipation. It involved a chopstick and a sugary mixture. Are you envisaging now what I was a few hours ago? Eye watering stuff and an example of the kind of conversational dialogue we follow ...