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Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,441 2020s romance movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
Aya, a young Ivorian woman in her early thirties, says no on her wedding day, to everyone’s astonishment. After emigrating to Asia, she works in a tea export shop with Cai, a 45-year-old Chinese man. Aya and Cai fall in love but can their affair survive the turmoil of their past and other people’s prejudices?
Ratings
IMDb5.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes33%
Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do.
54 audience votes
Key crew
- Abderrahmane SissakoDirector
- Abderrahmane SissakoWriter
- Armand AmarOriginal Music Composer
- Kessen TallWriter
Cast
- Nina MéloAya
- Chang HanCai
- Wu Ke-xiYing
- Michael ChangLi-Ben
- Yu Pei-JenMei
- Huang WeiWen
- Isabelle KabanoVivi
- Emery GahuranyiTrésor
- Franck PycardhyToussaint
- Jacqueline ZhuDouyue
- Véronique BaillyTouli
- Roger PegardLe maire
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Themes
teainterracial relationshipaccidental lovetea ceremonycôte d'ivoireguangzhou, china