- Dr Raymond Young
A former student of Clementi Secondary School, which was named after Sir Cecil Clementi, the 17th British Governor of Hong Kong. Raymond was caught in possession of seditious slogans and sentenced to 18 months when he was 16. Shortly after his release, he was passionately immersed in his life, family and career. Five decades passed. One day, he was surprisingly invited to a gathering of ex-young prisoners.
- Tse Kang Yin
A former student of Pui Kiu Middle School which was a pro-Beijing school in Hong Kong. Tse was caught together with Raymond and was sentenced to 18 months in prison for possessing of seditious publication. For Tse, he aid not find past a burden. No pain and no guilt.
- Wong So Man
Wong was a good teenage girl growing up under communism. She read and studied well. She worked in a communist bookstore where she got into a confrontation with police. She was charged with obstruction of police officers’ execution of duties and put in jail for three weeks. After her release, for a time she was arranged a new job by the union yet her dream of communism was over. She once wanted her 30-something son to get a sense of her past though it was just a desire for mutual understanding.
- Ng Mee Lin
Ng helped a labour union in 1967. She was charged with possession of explosives and sentenced to 4 years at 16 years old. During imprisonment, she saw many kinds of human tragedy. Afterwards, she gave up her childhood aspiration to become a teacher. Perhaps a gift of her suffering was that she later found her lover who shared her ideology and beliefs. Although thousands of questions related to her cases were never answered, they vanished when she devoted herself to everyday life and stopped blaming others.
- Tsang Yu Hung
Tsang was charged with participation in an unlawful assembly and sentenced to 12 months in jail in 1967. Over the years Tsang never opened about his past during the riots at home, nor at his workplace, nor the fact that he got a criminal record at the age of 16. Nonetheless, his experience was continuously the root of the twisted rapport between him and the people surrounding him. Today, instead of forgetting, Tsang seek healing and redress by giving his account in a record and to the public.
- Han Shue
Until the day Han ran her fingertips on the British archives about her past, she finally began disclosing her story in front of the camera after 50 years of silence. At 14, Han was charged with obstruction of police officer’s execution of duties and sentenced to one-month imprisonment. Today, with a new hairdo and sunglasses, she chose to preserve her firsthand accounts of the past on record without notifying anyone in her family.
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