Embrace Again

Embrace Again is a 2021 Chinese romance film directed by Xue Xiaolu and starring Huang Bo and Jia Ling. The film was released in mainland China on 31 December 2021 and depicts love stories between ordinary people during the COVID-19 lockdown in Wuhan, Hubei. Plot The film features four parallel storylines and is based on true stories about people in Wuhan during the lockdown early in the COVID-19 pandemic. It is lighter in tone than Chinese Doctors, another 2021 film set during the Wuhan lockdown. One storyline, starring Huang Bo, follows a courier who works to transport goods for hospitals. Another, starring Jia Ling and Zhu Yilong, depicts the interactions between a delivery person and a piano teacher. The third storyline is about an elderly couple, a restaurateur (played by Hui Shiu-hung) and a retired doctor (played by Wu Yanshu). The fourth is about a middle-aged couple, two businesspeople who run a travel agency and a supermarket, played by Xu Fan and Gao Yalin.