Shades of Life — Season 1, Episode 7: Episode 7
45 min • 1 season, 12 episodes
Episode synopsis
New immigrants set foot in Hong Kong, immediately triggering the Hong Kong-Mainland conflict. After years of waiting, our heroine, WONG MEI-FUN, bringing along her daughter, finally gets the one-way permit to Hong Kong so as to reunite themselves with her truck driver husband CHAN WING-SUN. Despite the joy of the family reunion, her husband, in an attempt to improve their living standard, gets addicted to gambling, whereas her daughter feels desperate because her English level falls behind the average Hong Kong primary school standard. After struggling with herself for some days, our heroine eventually pulls herself together, tenaciously as if her hometown camellia. Thus shows the importance to form a win-win situation for Hong Kong and Mainland.
About Shades of Life
Yu Yang is a highly respected retired principal. He has a deep affection for traditional Chinese culture and places an emphasis on family values. His eldest son Jack Wu graduated with a journalism degree and works as a magazine editor. Jack likes to get to the bottom of things and sometimes has different opinions than his father on certain social issues. Yu Yang and his daughter Zoie Tam, being 40 years apart, have a major generation gap. Yu Yang finds it difficult to adjust to the rapidly changing technology era. Fortunately, his daughter-in-law Elaine Yiu is a good mother and wife, and keeps the household in perfect order. But as her son grows older, the family is faced with decisions about his education, which brings out the nerves of everyone. The series explores a number of critical issues for Hong Kongers, including education, housing, an aging population, declining competitiveness of youth, Mainland relations, and the immigration trend.