Devoted partners Pat and Angie have shared a life, a love, and their cozy Hong Kong apartment for decades. Hosting boisterous family meals (where they are simply referred to as “aunties,” even if privately everyone knows they are a couple), looking after each other’s needs, and enjoying their community of queer people in Hong Kong, they seem to exemplify a life of contentment as aging lesbians in an ever more accepting society.
But that happiness starts to unravel in the face of a family tragedy. The biases facing older queer couples surface both subtly and overtly, as Angie must navigate the long-suppressed attitudes of Pat’s family and the inequity of Hong Kong’s laws. Like Angie herself, All Shall Be Well manages to be both delicate and tough, a moving depiction of the true meaning of chosen family.
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“Going off in a corner and crying during this film is completely understandable and reasonable, because me too.”