Saving Our Vanishing Identity

Born in September 1997 after the handover of Hong Kong, Jason, a Secondary Four student and the leader of the ice hockey team at school, is fond of studying history. Standing at the crossroad between the colonial past and main land China in the present, he expresses his own thoughts and opinions over the ‛identity of being a Hong Konger’. For a long time, the issue of identity has perplexed Hong Kong people. On one hand they solidly support Chinese athletes at the Olympics. On the other hand, they hate the ‛cultural invasion’ of individual visits from China. Jason sets his date of birth as the starting point of the experiment. He has invited two of his buddies to join him to go back to the lifestyles in Hong Kong before the handover. Jason and his buddies try to experience in a light-hearted way what daily life was like then. Through this, they observe and learn from real life about the genuine ‛identity of a Hong Konger’.