Touch

Fei Fei, a married Caucasian western woman meets Bai Yu, a Chinese blind masseur. When they come together in an intense love affair they find the demons they've created implode in a clash of violent impulses.

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Fei Fei is a Western woman living an affluent, cosseted existence as the wife of Chinese executive Zhang Hua in a small resort town in China. But she feels deeply alienated from the country she loves, her friends and husband. Almost as quickly as she starts an affair with a blind masseur, she withdraws, leaving her lover obsessive, possessive, and possessed. The demons they’ve created finally implode in a clash of mixed desires and violent impulses.

Aleksandra Szczepanowska is a Polish-born screenwriter and film director based in New York. Her last feature film as writer/director/producer was the romantic thriller TOUCH, which she shot in China (in Mandarin) and which was picked up by HBO Europe. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Screenwriting at the consciousness-based David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts at MIU, where she was mentored by Lynch.