"The first chapter of a planned tetralogy, DWELLING opens with a rambunctious birthday banquet of an elderly woman (Du), simply referred as mum, with her clan of four sons and, their respective families, but jollification is ironically snuffed after she is smack smitten with a stroke while jocosely doling out a "red packet", a Chinese tradition inside which banknotes are concealed, to her grandson Kangkang (Sun Zikang), who is a patient of Downs syndrome. After that, mum is taken living with her oldest son Youfu (Qian), his wife Fengjuan (Wang) and their daughter Guxi (Peng), but vicissitudes of quotidian life unfold like a Chinese stroll (the film's title is also the name of the renowned wash drawing by Huang Gongwang, 1269-1354, the oldest of the "Four Masters of the Yuan dynasty"), languidly but ineluctable, marriage arrangement, filial obligation, fraternal liaisons, illegal gravy train, generational confrontation and the shifting ethos are all too familial in the contemporary Chinese society."
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