Keening Woman

Rita Hui • 2013

Cotton (Michelle Wai) is a keening woman, whose vocation is to wail and dance for the deceased. One day, as she performs the ritual at the funeral parlor, she sees the ghost of Ling (Mitsu Hana). Cotton starts to engage with Ling against the advice of her boyfriend Hang (Ryan Hui). As Cotton and Ling get closer, they initiate a journey into the world of the spirits and enter the realm of subconsciousness and mysticism filled with surrealistic and fantastical imageries.