Introduction to "Evening Breeze in San Gabriel"
In Monterey Park, Los Angeles, Fatty Ding Square gathers countless wandering Chinese. Here, many foreign men and women choose to "live together" without registering marriage, live together, share expenses, and rely on each other to resist loneliness, but are not protected by the law.
Decoration contractor Chen Jingsong holds a green card and has a wife and children in China. He has lived with Wen Yulan, who is under asylum, for two years in Mongolia, and has pieced together a seemingly stable life. Tang Xiaoning, an international student from a poor family, often works part-time at a square milk tea shop. She has old wounds in her heart that are difficult to heal. Under the loneliness and material temptation of a foreign land, she is gradually involved in this complicated emotional whirlpool.
The secret triangle relationship gradually became unbalanced, and Tang Xiaoning unexpectedly became pregnant with an illegitimate child. A marriage contract brings heavy constraints, but intimacy without a contract is even more fragile. After the secret was exposed, the two-year partnership collapsed. The domestic first wife went to Los Angeles to confront each other, and the game of alimony, custody rights, status and interests ensued.
The evening breeze of the San Gabriel Valley blows through the square's Chinese neon lights day and night. Desire coerces survival, favor replaces rules, and all choices that cross the line will eventually have to pay a price. People drifting in a foreign country, amidst the hustle and bustle of the crowd, each make their way home alone.
