Poet, novelist, translator, revolutionist, lover and three-time Buddhist monk, who went into exile and died young — Su Manshu
(1884 - 1918) is the textbook late-Romantic artist with special Chinese characteristics (meaning he never became a pop sex-hero like Byron, Shelley or Keats). Born in Japan to a Chinese father and a Japanese mother, Su stood on the threshold of early Chinese modernism. Even if he kept a low profile, he never concealed his emotions, filling his writings and drawings with his soul. His personality of exuberance, hedonism, and spelling art and revolutionary spirit is just the right stuff to create legends.

From playwright Raymond To and director Ko Tin-lung, the team that brought us The Legend of the Mad Phoenix, one of Hong Kong's most popular stage plays in recent years, A Tale of an Evanescent Mortal brings to life a mythmaker of tremendous physical energy, who is also deeply emotional, sentimental and poetic.

Angelo Posto is the postmaster from above with the mission to deliver four letters. He shuttles back and forth in the seasons to locate the receiving parties. On his way, he meets a wanderer family which has lost maternal love, two expeditors obsessed with their dream mirage and two old genies embracing the big full moon. The letters Angelo delivers bring surprise and hope.
But he is sore about the way he has been treated. Worse still, he is getting desperate about delivering the last unnamed letter in the snowy winter......Yet, nobody answers. Angelo feels so tired now. What should he do?