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| Isabella (Hong Kong 2006)
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Introduction (Synopsis)
On the eve of Macau’s handover to China, police officer
SHING (Chapman To) is having the worst time of his life.
Suspended for suspected corruption, he tries to find solace
with an elfin creature by the name of YAN (Isabella Leong)
whom he just picks up. As he tries to smooth-talk her to
bed, she suddenly snaps back with the biggest turn-off
imaginable: that she is the daughter he never knew existed!
While Shing desperately tries to hold himself together, his
bachelor life inevitably falls apart as Yan insists on
living under his roof. Together the two of them start
roaming through exotic Macau, tracking down Yan’s missing
puppy and striving to striving to get to know each other. No
sooner has Shing grown into his new role as a father than he
finds his hands full: when Yan is not fighting with his
girlfriend KATE (Meme Tian), she is being bothered by her
dorky classmate (Derek Tsang).
Will the newfound father and daughter, who have given up
hope along the way, be able to find the true vocation of
their lives at last?
About The Film
It’s the summer of 1999: the last summer before Macau’s
sovereignty reverts back to China. In this excruciatingly
hot summer, Shing feels the heat, not from the weather, but
from the tight spot he’s trapped in.
He’s a cop on suspension, facing charges of collaborating
with the triad in smuggling cigarettes. Without his gun and
badge, he feels like a civilian. Or perhaps worse. He feels
naked and helpless.
His Portuguese superior, who is part of the scam, is too
busy packing up and collecting the profits to care what will
become of Shing. Shing is left stranded in a spot that has
been intended for him all along.
His only hope is to silence the
defendant-turned-state-witness, Curry, whose testimony will
put the last nail in his coffin.
While his life is falling apart, something else crashes into
his life in the shape and form of an elfin creature by the
name of Yan. Taking her for granted as one of his countless
nameless and faceless one-night stands, he tries to
smooth-talk her into bed. But Yan blurts out a name that
becomes the biggest turn-off imaginable. A name from his
long forgotten past…
At the age of 16 he impregnated his girlfriend Hua and gave
her money for an abortion. Unable to deal with the
situation, he walked out on her at the hospital and out of
her life for good.
Shing now realizes that Hua did not go through with the
abortion but died of lung cancer the year before. Since her
mother’s death, Yan has been locked out of her apartment and
needs a place to stay while her dog Isabella has been thrown
out on the street.
While Yan asks nothing of Shing as a father, Shing feels
obligated to help her find Isabella, which is not only the
name of the strayed dog, but that of a ghost of his distant
past: Isabella was also the name Hua used at the age of 16.
As Shing tries to cope with his new role as a father, his
bachelor life inevitably falls apart as Yan’s presence puts
an end to his many one-night stands. Slowly getting to know
each other, they soon find the solace they had long been
searching for.
Will the newfound father and daughter, who have given up
hope along the way, be able to find the true vocation of
their lives?
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