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In Shanghai, two young people, Yuan and Sassa, are in love. But because he felt like a foreigner in his own country, Yuan one day chose to settle in Montreal. Sassa, who refuses to see exile as a remedy for the pain of living, decides not to follow him. Will their love endure this distance? Part of the finest tradition of the epistolary novel, Chinese Letters tells of uprooting, departures, the clash of cultures and impossible loves. These letters, where all words are permitted, except those of the truth, are crossed by a fundamental anxiety, that which seizes the soul when it takes the measure of its depth.