This movie has believable performances and has many moments of character interactions that I enjoyed. The story spends most of the movie putting the main character, a single mother, through one challenge after another as she tries to take care of her daughters and make a life for herself where she relies on no one else, especially a husband. Towards the end of the movie she finds more and more business success, but I couldn't help but feel that her life was profoundly sad and empty as she seemed to give everything for her work and her daughters and didn't take time to relax and deepen her relationships. The one big complaint I have of this movie is the music which is much too happy and reassuring at all times, much like a Hallmark movie. As an American, I'm sure there is much I don't understand of Chinese culture so I enjoyed the film but I did feel overall that some realism was missing. The part of the movie that touched me most was seeing the mom struggle and facing life with fearlessness and courage.
