“The cities are constantly expanding, the real estate sector is booming. Members of Ma’s clan have moved into commercial housing, but Mr. Ma and his wife insisted on living in the old house. The real estate dealer took a fancy to Mr. Ma’s old house, the plan is to buy the old house and convert it into commercial space. Mr. Ma is reluctant to sell his old house. The real estate company used various means to force Mr. Ma to sell his old house. Mr. Ma still disagrees.

Mr. Ma’s daughter is a documentary filmmaker, she was moved by her father’s spirit of protecting their homes. She then took the Hakka culture represented by the old house as the subject to shoot a documentary, and for the old house applied for cultural heritage protection. Mr. Ma and his family worked together to match their wits with the real estate company and finally won.”