Returning East

To please his Chinese calligraphy teacher Old Min, JJ finds himself bound to a promise made on Old Min's deathbed. He must now fight the childhood memories of his years in Indochina and travel back to the Far East to keep his promise, unaware of what lies ahead. On board of the ocean liner 'Cambodge', JJ meets Fred. JJ's longing for validation makes him turn his life upside down to keep this friendship.




After Fred pressures JJ to follow him in Hong Kong, and they end up stranded in the English colony, with no money and no way to continue their journey. JJ despairs as also the urn with Old Min's ashes is gone with all his luggage.

To please his friend, again, JJ agrees to get smuggled into China and to become involved in a shady art deal, risking jail, or worse, in communist China. Things turn from bad to worse when the money to buy the art piece is stolen.




As his friendship with Fred dwindles with the challenges they face, JJ realises how much his childhood trauma is shaping his present. JJ and Fred are once more smuggled over the border, bad weather causes the boat to capsize, and JJ barely makes it to Hong Kong.

In the hospital he has to confront a new trauma, but this time his mother is there for him, and with her help he finds release from his old guilt.