Synopsis | Feng Xia, a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother living in Montreal, has spent her life shaped by duty: to her family, her culture, and a loveless marriage. But when she meets Camille, a spirited young Québécoise, a long-buried desire is awakened. In the balmy and joyful Montreal summer, Feng Xia takes the radical step of choosing herself, embarking on a journey of forbidden love and long-overdue self-discovery. Her awakening becomes a profound reckoning with identity, exile, and the steep cost of liberation.

Programmer's note | The film follows a woman who has spent many years building a life in a foreign country and suddenly begins to hear the silence within herself again. Under the routines of daily life, the order of family, and a long habit of keeping up appearances, something buried deep inside her begins to stir. However, that change does not come all at once. It moves more like the careful steps of someone who is only now starting to feel the shape of her own life again. In the film, desire stays in the eyes of a person who has endured for a long time. It rises quietly through the body's hesitant memories as they begin to open. Within the growing tension of family life, one's life slowly begins to be written again. The film stays close to the moments when love can be felt in a tangible way in the most ordinary places. The air of the shop, the silence at the dinner table, the city in the evening, and a feeling that arrives late all become part of one's dignity. The years of migration carry the marks of settling down, but they also reveal the cracks inside a heart. And Montreal, in its quiet beauty, seems to hold those cracks with care. The film leaves less with a clear answer about where to stay than a lasting question about how to live. If one can still arrive at love in the end, then no time is ever truly too late.