Raindrops on a White Pear Blossom

By Leo Lu.

"Chinese people has a saying describing crying woman. Li Hua Dai Yu. Raindrops on a white pear flower. I always wanted to have a girl like that. So soft, so protected. So beautiful."

It is 2005 in London. Things are still going uphill. Lily Wei is still working in a dingy diner in Chinatown. 20 miles from her home, her daughter Evelyn is waking up in a construction site for her yet unbuilt home, from a nap she supposedly took 20 years later.
She doesn't know what happened, and frankly, she doesn't care. All she knows is she has to act fast, before her mother does what she is going to do.

Raindrops on a White Pear Blossom follows a mother and a daughter as they untangle their past, present, and future, trying to wrangle free of each other's wraiths while sinking deeper and deeper. As the parent-child dynamic is flipped on its head, Raindrops asks the question every parent is afraid to hear: When is it time to let go?

Content warning: References to death and/or dying and suicide; abuse (physical, mental, verbal); drug/substance abuse; sexism; strong language