[Synopsis]
At fifty, Yang Juan is a retired Chinese teacher. Divorced for ten years, she owns a home, has a pension, and is rich in spirit.
She thought blind dates were a way to find someone who shared her outlook in her later years. Instead, she somehow walked into a massive “observatory of human oddities.”
In Teacher Yang’s eyes, these fifty men are fifty “essays riddled with errors,” all in urgent need of correction.
One treats a “Housekeeper Employment Contract” like a love letter and wants to offset her pension against the cost of household chores. Another waxes lyrical about “poetry and faraway places,” but really wants a free editor and a long-term meal ticket. Yet another is stuck in the past and only wants a poor substitute for his late wife…
Faced with men whose scheming and sleaze are written all over their faces, Yang Juan summons the commanding presence she once had at the head of a classroom. Want to exploit her for free labor? She responds with a lively lesson on labor law. Trying to manipulate her emotionally? She cuts their little schemes to shreds with her sharp tongue.
Fifty men, fifty absurd snapshots of middle-aged romance and marriage.
With these fifty unusual “blind-date lesson plans,” Yang Juan shows everyone that at an age when you know your limits, it’s better to stand tall amid your own storms than to bow your head under someone else’s roof.
