- Shanghai Strangers is about the dilemma of a young woman, Xiu Xiu, in post-Communist China, where the fast-growing material wealth and the spiritual void create a longing for a more authentic era when love was more difficult but also ultimately meaningful. A chance encounter, an unexpected discovery, a fateful afternoon, a song and a boat..., this film is my love haiku to Shanghai - a city where I was born and raised, an urban landscape that I most frequent in my dreams.—Anonymous
- Shanghai Strangers is about a young Chinese woman's dilemma in a time of fast-growing material wealth and spiritual void. A chance encounter, an unexpected discovery, a fateful afternoon, a song and a boat..., this film is my love haiku to Shanghai - a city where I was born and raised, an urban landscape that I most frequent in my dreams.—Anonymous
- Its Christmas Eve in Shanghai. Film opens with a childs birthday party filled with family members and friends in a restaurant. This is a happy and noisy crowd. Next to them, a single Western man, who is dining by himself, looks all the more lonely. As the party draws to an end and the guests begin to leave, there is a blackout on the block. As the crowd leaves the restaurant, Xiu Xiu, the mother of the birthday boy, stays behind to wait for the bill to be printed out. The lone foreigner sits in the dark at the next table. The dim candlelight lends a quiet intimacy to the atmosphere and the two begin to make cordial small talk, though his Chinese and her English are both limited. Much to the shock of Xiu Xiu herself and her listener, what she tells him was something that is quite personal and scandalous. When the bright lights and the Christmas music come back to the restaurant, they are strangers once again, each getting his and her bill and leaving in a hurry. But curiosity gets the better of him and he stops her before she can drive off into the night. The foreigner and Xiu Xiu share a cup of coffee while she tells him a secret that she is not able to tell anyone else. This is a Christmas Eve they will both remember for a very long time.
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