Almost Heaven tells the story of Ying Ling, an ambitious 17 year-old girl far from home, struggling to overcome her sense of displacement, alienation and fears of death as she trains to become a funeral director in one of China’s largest funeral homes. The film is confidently quiet in its telling of this intimate, tender and life-affirming portrait of a young woman on the cusp of adulthood.
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