From anywhere in the world, Liu Yulin's first feature is that rare beast, a brutally honest and perceptive film about relationships. If it has any advice, it's in the title and opening sequence: at a local government registration office, one couple is trying to file its marriage paperwork ("We can talk about everything!") while another is trying to get divorced ("We have nothing to say!"). Ten years later, the first couple has effectively transformed into the second. When cuckolded husband Aiguo sets out to catch his wife having an affair, he ends up jeopardizing two marriages. Meanwhile his 39-year-old sister re-enters the dating game, desperately seeking someone to talk to of her own. Liu Yulin, who studied filmmaking in New York, chose to adapt her father's beloved novel because she grew up with the characters and knows them inside out. She proves her own talent by making them worth listening to.