Preparation for the Next Life
Love isn’t an escape, it’s a reason to keep going.
Overview
Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground kitchens. She fatefully encounters Skinner, a young American soldier who has just returned from three tours in the Middle East. While falling in love, they discover the possibility of a better life together than the ones they believed they were destined to live alone.
- Revenue
- $43,421
- Production
- Orion Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, PASTEL
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Cast
Sebiye Behtiyar
Aishe
Fred Hechinger
Skinner
Landyn Lu
Munro
Ella Rouwen Chen
Chen
B. Todd Johnston
Jim
Maxwell Almono
Luis
Justin Cotta
Cop (Times Square)
Alicher Adill
Aziz
Dralla Aierken
Arzu
Esther Chen
Min
Celine Cheung
Yi
Jessica Ma
Ma
Gabriel Furman
Officer Furman
Joshua De Jesus
Officer De Jesus
Divina Ito
Deputy
Jasmin Richardson
Jasmin
Tien-Li Wu
Tien-Li
Lynn Xiong
Yu
Myrna Cabello
Myrna
Austin Owens Kelly
Cashier
Crew
- Director
- Bing Liu
- Writers
- Martyna Majok
- Cinematography
- Ante Cheng
- Composer
- Emile Mosseri
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Brent Marchant
October 1, 2025
An essential element of any love story is chemistry between the lead characters, even if it takes an unconventional form. Regrettably, however, that’s exactly what’s missing in director Bing Liu’s debut narrative feature, based on the novel by Atticus Lish. Told in the form of a narrated letter/journal entry to her late film, the film chronicles the unlikely love story of Aishe (Sebiye Behtiyar), an ambitious, sharp-witted twentysomething Uyghur woman who illegally immigrates to the US, and Skin…