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Synopsis
A soul-searching story about three friends, Wolf, Alan and Sophie, who have different conditions of deafness. When Sophie graduates from the university and starts a new job, she realises she has been struggling to be seen as normal. Tensions grow between the three friends as they find themselves conflicting over how best to communicate with the world while remaining true to themselves.
Movie Info
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Adam Wong
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Jacqueline Liu, Ho Hong, Adam Wong
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Neo Yau, Chung Suet Ying, Marco Ng
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Wong Wai Hang, Cheng Chun Hei, Yam Yuen
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Panther Chan
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Hong Kong Sign Language, Cantonese with English Subtitling
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132 mins
Director: Adam Wong
Director’s Statement
How can a person live in one's true color while integrating oneself into the community?
Neo Yau As Wolf
“It’s not that I can’t hear you — it’s that you can’t hear me.”
Wolf grew up in the Deaf world. Sign language is his mother tongue. He speaks bluntly, acts decisively, and sometimes comes across as too sharp. But he isn’t trying to go against the world — he’s just too used to being misunderstood. He doesn’t want to “fit in,” because he never believed anything was missing from him. He simply exists in a different way.
Neo Yau spent nearly a year learning sign language to portray Wolf, capturing his fierceness and fragility, his stubbornness and tenderness — all through his eyes and hands. Wolf might just be someone we’ve met before, or perhaps someone deep within ourselves — that person who longs to be understood, yet wears thorns for protection.
Chung Suet Ying As Sophie
"I always thought that if I tried hard enough to speak, I could fit into the world... but I’ve come to realise — the world has to be willing to hear me too."
Sophie received a cochlear implant at a young age and, under her mother’s expectations, worked hard to develop spoken language — striving to become a “normal person.” Her speech carries an accent, but she has never stopped trying to communicate with the world. Yet, after facing challenges in both her career and personal life, she begins to wonder: “Can I also choose to be understood in my own way?”
Through a twist of fate, she crosses paths with Wolf and Alan — and embarks on a life-changing journey through sign language.
Macro Ng As Alan
A hard-of-hearing young man who received a cochlear implant as a child and has worked hard to fit into mainstream society.
Cheerful and gentle, he’s the sunshine boy in his friends’ eyes — but beneath his optimism lies a quiet struggle between identity and the pressures of reality. When he meets Sophie, who also wears a cochlear implant, and falls in love, he begins to realise that understanding — and being understood — is never a one-way street.
Portrayed with heartfelt sincerity by Deaf actor Macro Ng, his emotions within a silent world resonate even more deeply.