The Chinese Box

Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution in China. The colony reels under bombs, assassinations and violent demonstrations. Anglo-Russian Dimitri Johnston, a disillusioned academic, fears he may be forced to leave his birthplace, but that would only please his unhappy wife Helen, who gave up her career as a concert pianist to marry him. When Dimitri falls in love with Mila, a Chinese ballet dancer from Shanghai, the future of his marriage begins to seem as uncertain as the future of Hong Kong. Their affair continues as passionately as the increasing violence on the streets. But when they see a demonstrator being savagely beaten by the police, and subsequently learn he has died in custody, they face agonising choices that will irretrievably change other's lives as well as theirs.