Love Deposit (2013)

In a suburb of Qingdao, eastern China, summer 2012, He Mu Yang runs a small cafe named Love Bank, so-called because he also offers a service for couples in love. For RMB660 (US$100) he will record each partner's private thoughts-cum-love letter and lock the video cards in a deposit box in the cafe; if the couple is still together after a year, they get the cards and their money back, but if they've split up by then, they lose both. One night, Mu Yang comes home, drunk, to find a young woman, Yu Xiao Yu, asleep in the cafe. Initially, she accuses him of attempted rape, but, after she calms down and the matter is settled by Mu Yang's policeman friend, they go off for a coffee together. She tells Mu Tang that she and her boyfriend of the time, Wang, once used his "love bank"; now they've split up, she wants the video cards back, but Wang has both the contract and the deposit-box keys. Mu Yang finally agrees to refund her the money but not to return the video cards. After she's sacked from her job at the city's aquarium, he offers her one in the cafe and agrees to tell her (a bit at a time) what Wang said about her on his video card. As they spend together, they become closer. Edit Translation

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