Storyline

Rose, a Shanhainese songstress singing at nightclubs in HongKong during the 60's, marries an Australian sailor and migrates with her young son and daughter to Melbourne. Her past filled with lost innocence, she begins a cycle of dependence and desperation to create a family for herself and her children, culminating with her affair with Qi, an illegal immigrant from HongKong. Watched through the eyes of her young son, the mother's journey reveals painful truths about the human condition, the love of family and self, and the price we pay for growing up.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords

single mother, brother sister relationship, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, unfaithful wife, traumatic childhood, suicide, suicide of mother, suicide attempt, older woman younger man relationship, mother love, mother in law daughter in law relationship, 1960s, 1970s, cultural difference, mental instability, stepfather stepson relationship, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, mother's boyfriend, interracial relationship

Short Review

A finely chiseled drama about an unstable Chinese mother struggling to reconcile her desires with her children's needs in early '70s Australia, The Home Song Stories speaks bittersweet truths about life in the Chinese diaspora.

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