The Green Hope

The auditorium is full. HIM is performing feelingly on stage…. Everything started in the Christmas of 1996. LAI and her sister CHING brought their grandma CHEONG to a buffet. Their elder sister CHOI was greedy and joined them. FAI and his wife KWAN were admired to be a good match. It was Christmas and everywhere was busy, but FAI had lot of concerns. There was a small stage at the corner of a mall, and three schizophrenics HIM, CHUNG and HO were waiting for their performance. A mental patient YING was running after being discovered of shoplifting in a CD shop. She knocked on the stage, which was destroyed. CHOI felt that CHEONG was a burden and did not care of her. LAI was always late for work because she had to look after CHEONG. FAI employed detective to find his missing brother HIM.

HIM always wore a smile and was a welcome person. However, his colleague TONY was dissatisfied with him. A girl MAN met HIM and was impressed. HIM’s mother, a drug addict, often visited him. FAI finally found HIM and they intimately acquainted with each other. FAI was comforted that HIM had become a lawyer, but he was only a messenger in a law firm. HIM’s colleagues BEN and TONY suspected HIM had mental disease. FAI and his father CHOY had disagreement. FAI brought HIM to visit CHOY, CHOY seemed to have something hiding from him. YING’s behavior was strange. Her father sent DY to watch over her HIM found that he almost recovered, he stopped taking medicine. In order to accompany CHEONG, LAI was late for work again. Her colleagues were dissatisfied. HIM’s illness broke out. He immediately looked for medicine to control it.

TONY and BEN stole HIM’s medicine, which made him fall sick. Everyone was shocked to know HIM was a mental patient. HIM struggled hard but fortunately FAI arrived. FAI was surprised that HIM was a ex-mental patient. HIM was reluctant to tell him why he was mentally sick. LAI brought CHEONG to medical consultation. CHEONG told LAI about her past painful experience. FAI rebuked LAI of being late. LAI’s colleagues had activated the sprinkler my mistake and some important documents were wet. They put the blame on LAI. She did not have any choice and had to dry the documents up. She was tired and fell asleep.

FAI returned to the office at midnight and found LAI slept. He finished her work and left quietly. LAI woke up and was surprised to find the work was done. FAI visited CHOY but their relationship did not improved. RAYMOND played LAI. She thought it was done by FAI. She ran into his room and argued with him. MAN fell on the floor when she was cycling. HIM helped her. She had better impression on him. HIM received an entrance notice from a musical college. He was very excited and played guitar all night. MAN was living upstairs of HIM. She recorded every note. FAI went to a protection workshop to understand HIM’s job in the past. Though HIM’s colleagues stayed away from him, he did not bear in mind. HIM and CHONG went to a fastfood shop, TONY and others insulted them. They fought together and were caught to a police station.

In the police station, TONY and his friends were arrogant. The policemen disliked them and helped HIM. Another mental patient CHUN lived with his uncle KUN who treated her violently. HIM’s mother FUN stayed with HIM temporarily. HIM intended to tell her about his study in musical college, but he didn’t. A debt collector looked for FUN to pay debt. FUN was not in and HIM promised to pay for her. HIM was disappointed to discover FUNG was still addicted to drug. FUN determined to get rid of it. From his father’s best friend MENG, FAI realized that he had wrongly blamed CHOY for years. He even self-rebuked that he had hurt HIM indirectly. HIM at resigned from his job. His boss appreciated him and gave him extra bonus, which could pay FUN’s debt. However, FUN took HIM’s savings hoping to get more money to settle the debt. At last, she was cheated for every penny and caught to police station.

HIM was agitated by FUN’s act and felt sick. He rushed out from his house and bumped into MAN. FAI regretted when he recalled his childhood that he had pushed HIM to live with FUN. HIM was painful when he was fighting against illusion. Luckily, FAI came and sent him to hospital. FAI did not want HIM staying in mental hospital. He brought him home. FAI was restless with HIM and being vexed. FAI found LAI was lovely because she was simple and straight-forward.