This film is about my documentary partner's (George Fu) grandmother, who grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution - a time period under the political leadership of Mao Ze Dong. We chose her as our subject in order to learn about what life was like for our grandparents' generation. Footage was shot on a Canon EOS 60D DSLR during multiple trips to George's family residence in Chino, a suburban city in Southern California. Audio was recorded with a Marantz Flash audio recorder.

We wanted our story to be led by George's grandmother through her voice, her recollections, and personal records. It was important for us to focus on her subjective experience of the Cultural Revolution rather than creating a textbook dramatization of the period. The film goes back and forth between her homestaged opera performance and stories from her life living under Mao's politics. It is also supplemented by archival footage produced during the Cultural revolution.