In a world of rapidly changing cultures and environmental upheaval, one couple from opposite ends of the earth strives to stay true to their values and each other, giving a personal perspective on globalisation.
The Red House is an intimate portrait of a cross-cultural married couple Jia and Lee. While they share a great and enduring love, they come from vastly different backgrounds and have contrasting perspectives. The film follows their journey back to Jia's homeland giving a personal account of globalization.—Anonymous
Is home the place you are from, or what you carry inside you wherever you go?
The Red House is a story about the endurance of love in the face ofcultural upheaval, environmental neglect, and the universal process ofaging.
Lee and Jia are a couple in their sixties still deeply in love aftertwenty years. But when Jia has to return to her homeland to care forher aging parents, the physical traces of their years together arepacked away. Their future together suddenly seems fragile.
Jia finds the ancient city of her memories replaced by a disposable,fast-paced lifestyle. On his arrival Lee also feels lost in thisforeign land.
As the family crisis escalates, the couple strive to reconcile theuneasy balance of their love.
