The story is a domestic drama, with an addictive hint of soap, avowedly autobiographical and based on the director's own childhood experiences of being cared for (along with two siblings) by a maidservant from the Philippines: the title is a Mandarin phrase meaning "mum and dad not at home". Interestingly, the little boy at the movie's centre is an unspeakably obnoxious brat: imperious, manipulative, slightly obsessive-compulsive. Perhaps all film directors have a little of these qualities somewhere in their pasts.
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