Theatre

Norman (Chung King-fai), aged almost eighty, is a retired professor with a brusque and sometimes acid sense of humour. Ethel (Louise Lee), ten years his junior and easy and fun to be with, is his perfect life-long partner.

They are spending this summer as usual at their home on a lake called Golden Pond. They are visited by their daughter Chelsea (Fung Wai-hang), who is somewhat estranged from her curmudgeon of a father.Chelsea, in her middle-age and divorced, introduces them to her boyfriend, Bill (Koo Tin-lung), a dentist, and his son, thirteen-year-old Billy.

Though the boy and Norman can hardly get along at first, eventually they come to enjoy each other’s company like grandfather and grandson. The rift between the father and daughter also begins to close. When summer is over, Chelsea takes Billy home. Just when the family thinks life seems to be back to normal, Norman suffers a heart attack. The sense of death is never more real, but this also makes them aware how much they love each other. Time may be running out, but they have had a wonderful life together…