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Her Heart Beats in its Cage (2025)
Directed by Qin Xiaoyu
Drama · 1h 26m
Hong spent ten years in prison for killing her husband. Thanks to her contribution to the prison art workshop, she receives an unexpected opportunity to reduce her sentence. Her son, Lele, was raised by his grandmother and was never prepared to live with his mother. After their reunion, Lele always treats her coldly. Faced with a lonely grandmother who longs for Lele to return to her and a society that treats ex-convicts poorly, can Hong escape her invisible prison and regain happiness?
Cast
Zhao Xiaohong
Liu Shuyi
Crew
- Director
- Qin Xiaoyu
- Writer
- Qin Xiaoyu, Su Jingyuan, Emily Tang
- Director of Photography
- Liu Yonghong
- Editor
- Chow Keung, Wu Shitong
- Producer
- Cai Qingzeng
Details
- Original title
- 监狱来的妈妈
- Release date
- 2025-09-24
- Runtime
- 1h 26m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin
- Countries
- China
- Production
- Shanghai Dax Pictures
- Box office
- $6,250