Only You Alone

Since her grandfather died Chi Li has lived alone in the house of an aunt who is abroad She has no contact with her parents It is a lonely life but Chi Li is doing fine She has a job at a cinema and no need for a relationship She protects herself this way because who would want her as a girlfriend Chi Li has epilepsy In northeastern China where she lives this means she simply isnt marriage material When a boy nevertheless shows interest some warmth seems to penetrate her armoured existence However a romantic trip to a dance performance painfully reminds her of her past as a dancer Only You Alone is a powerful portrait of a courageous young woman made all the more so by the great acting of Chi Yun who cowrote the script with director Zhou Zhou