Her father, like Jiaying’s father, had fought in World War II against the Japanese at the Yunnan-Burmese border. Jiaying is running away from her British boyfriend in Europe and Judy from her abusive Chinese boyfriend she met while studying in Tokyo. While Judy relates memories of her boyfriend, Zhou, Jiaying comes to terms with events in her past that led her to wander the world aimlessly. By Dana Ter / Staff reporterMasked Dolls (假面娃娃) starts off trite, as if it were a sappy love story: “Perhaps I’ll call her Judy. The narrative advances through flashbacks to different points of Jiaying’s life and those of her family members.

Source: Taipei Times July 22, 2016 15:56 UTC