Little Rascal

Creative Statement

Set against the meeting of Chinese and Western cultures, Little Rascal uses a journey that its characters are forced into to tell a story of mother and son, life and death, love and hate. It explores identity, communication between generations, women's growth, and love, the deepest, most direct, most instinctive and simplest of human emotions.

Synopsis

On the first day of rehearsals for a new play, actress Su Mo learns that her husband has been in a car accident in France. Waiting for her there is not only his body but also that of his lover, who died with him in the crash. Back at their home in France, she discovers that his estate includes a six-year-old son born outside the marriage, and under local inheritance law this child will receive most of her late husband's estate. This series of sudden blows shatters Su Mo emotionally. Alex, the boy, raised on the Star Wars stories, both resists and cannot shake off this strange woman who has burst into his life, and has no choice but to let her take him to his grandfather's home far away in Sicily. How will Su Mo deal with the cold matter of the estate? How will she, full of hatred, face an innocent child? And where will his future home be? In a cool yet romantic Europe, an emotionally wounded woman sets out with her husband's son on an unexpected new journey in life...

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Zhou Difei

Executive Producer:

Ning Hao

Screenwriter:

Zhou Difei

Producer:

Wang Yunzhi | Maria Gucinata (Italy)

Logline

Su Mo, a career-driven actress who takes marriage lightly, rushes to France for the funeral after learning that her husband died in a car accident, only to discover that he and his lover had a six-year-old son. In search of the boy's grandfather, a woman dealt the double blow of infidelity and widowhood and an orphaned, innocent and lovable boy of mixed heritage set out on a coming-of-age journey across Europe, full of laughter and tears.