Reflexions
(Al Li Si De Jin Zi)

Jin sings with an underground rock band. She’s the “masculine” partner in a lesbian relationship with Mi. They have an agreement: if either of them settles down with a boyfriend, they’ll break off their relationship. Mi meets Hao and nervously edges into an affair with him. A fortune teller told her that she’d meet a guy who would love her very much, and Mi comes to feel very strongly that Hao is the one. Jin can sense that Mi is drifting away from her. At the same time she feels abandoned by her mother, who also has a new male friend. Jin becomes more and more emotionally fragile, in need of love and protection. Bitterly jealous of Hao, she considers taking her revenge on him. Jin looks back on this unhappy episode, and reflects that it’s the memory she would most like to erase…