278:, 袁詠儀) flies from Canada to watch Yuk-Seung's performance, and meet Kim-Sam for the first time. On her last performance, with her abandoned son sitting in the audience and who appears to know nothing about his biologicial mother performing on stage, Kim-Sam choked with sobs and was almost unable to go on. She finally dries her tears and steps out of the "Hu-Du-Men" and plays the role on stage.
246:"Hu-Du-Men" (虎度門) refers to the "stage door" where actors and actresses enter the stage to perform in a Cantonese opera. The stage door is a gateway between the actor (or actress) and the role he (or she) is going to play; once goes out of that door and gets on stage, he has to forget who he is and be the person he is tasked to act.
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262:, 蕭芳芳) has been in the theater industry for thirty years, and finally has to face the "stage door" of her life: Cantonese opera has reached the time when it needs subtle reform, but there are many difficulties in implementing it. Meanwhile, her husband, Chan Yiu-Jo (陳耀祖, played by
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