Comings and Goings

Unlike Apart from Love, Comings and Goings constructs a complicated love story. The chief characters get married in the late 1970s, when the Cultural Revolution is put to an end. That special “revolutionary” age stamps its indelible impact deeply on their marriage. However, great changes take place in the years afterwards in 1980s and 1990s in floods throughout China. The husband, a factory worker in Wuhan grows into a big boss in the late 1980s. In his early 40s, the husband, out of his own imagination, finds fresh love from a beautiful girl who is assigned by the parent company in the United States. They fall desperately in love, ignoring the world around them. But when the husband suggests divorce to the wife, what he sees is the threat of her uncommitted suicide. His despairing lover has to choose to leave. When the husband is suffering great sorrow of losing his lover, a modern girl who unbelievably resembles his first love suddenly appears in his life… Love comes and goes. No matter how fresh and sweet it may look, all comes to an end as soft but uncatchable clouds flying past leaving nothing behind. How is life and what is love? No one knows.

Author: Lywet

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