On a drizzly day in an antique walled garden, a film crew fusses over cameras and lights packed into an ornate pavilion. Outside, a sound man hunches over his recorders, sheltered by a narrow verandah.
Love is never a sin.
In 1987, Luo gave up a promising screen career in China to try to break into Hollywood. She earned a master's degree in theater but searched in vain for roles. The only way to get into an American movie, she decided, was to make it herself. She worked as a secretary, started her own production company and wrote a script from an American novel. She causes an uproar when she decides at 40 to free herself for a more intellectual life by finding her husband a concubine.