Waiting

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a dedicated doctor in the Chinese army, has been in love with an educated, worldly woman named Manna Wu.

But back in his home village, he's still legally married to Shuyu, a humble, loyal woman he doesn't love, whom he sees only once a year on his annual leave. Every summer he vows to divorce her, and every summer his intentions are thwarted.

This is a story of love, duty, and the corrosive weight of waiting, set against the backdrop of Communist China.