PSEUDO SECULAR

In response to Occupy Wall Street in 2011, Occupy Central occurred in Hong Kong. Tai Cho, a university student joins the movement with his girlfriend Yi and occupies the public area at HSBC for nearly a year. Yi is jailed for attacking the police, and Tai Cho falls in love with Yi's mother, Wan. Maxim, the heir to a soy sauce fortune, takes part in the movement and experiences a political awakening, leading him to return to his roots. His ex Man is a reporter obsessed with recording local history destined to disappear. Li Lei, a young woman from China, lives an unremarkable life with her boyfriend Yin in a tiny apartment until her life is changed by a mysterious internet celeb Ha Mai. They are stuck in their directionless lives until the outbreak of the Umbrella Revolution in 2014.