Director: Ray Yeung
"All Shall Be Well," Ray Yeung's 2024 drama from Hong Kong, opens with a sudden loss and follows the quiet, painful process of what comes after.
What is All Shall Be Well about?
Angie and Pat have shared a life and an apartment together for more than thirty years, building a home and a circle of chosen family around them in Hong Kong. When Pat dies unexpectedly, Angie is thrown into grief just as practical questions about the flat they lived in together begin to surface, questions tied to inheritance, family recognition, and who gets a say in decisions that were once simply hers to make. With Pat's biological relatives entering the picture, Angie leans on the friends who have supported the couple for decades as she works through both mourning and a fight to hold onto the life she built. The film traces her path toward independence on her own terms, later in life and under difficult circumstances.
Cast & crew
Patra Au Ga-Man leads the film as Angie, with Maggie Li Lin-Lin and veteran actor Tai Bo among the ensemble portraying Pat's family. Fish Liew and Leung Chung-Hang also appear as part of Angie and Pat's circle of friends.
Context & significance
Director Ray Yeung sets "All Shall Be Well" against the backdrop of contemporary Hong Kong, using a domestic dispute over housing and inheritance to explore how legal and family structures can leave long-term partners unprotected. The film premiered in 2024 and builds on Yeung's earlier work examining queer life and aging in Hong Kong, favoring understated, observational drama over melodrama.
Where & how to watch
"All Shall Be Well" streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles available alongside the original Cantonese audio. Anyone can browse the film's page for free; watching the film itself requires logging into a K-Time account. K-Time's Farsi-first design makes it simple for Persian-speaking viewers to follow understated dramas like this one from start to finish.