Leaf

The leading role Fang Shuyun, an overseas Chinese opera singer in the US, learned of the demolition and relocation of her family’s property in China and returned home to fight for her part of interests. When she returned to the hutong she left half her life, a battle to defend the property formally started between her and her elder sister, Fang Yingshu. Since their first meeting, the sisters, who originally took roots in the same family but now had get accustomed to very different living habits, started daily conflicts one after another. As Fang Yingshu and the neighborhood committee came to blows on the property demolition and relocation plan, Fang Shuyun had no choice but to sign the demolition agreement alone. However, when Fang Yingshu suddenly collapsed due to illness, Fang Shuyun finally came to learn the truth about Fang Yingshu’s unwillingness to leave. In the fight together against the disease, the two sisters also revealed each other’s secret that had been buried for half a lifetime - 50 years ago, behind the seemingly fierce “Uproot game” competition for the opportunity to go abroad is actually their thoughtful consideration for each other. A misunderstanding for a lifetime; one sister as leaf and another as the root; the theatrical tune of hutong forever echoes in the distance...