Walking through the deserted Victorian Square with nippy playbacks of emotionally convoluted scenes from Chinese film In Love We Trust, also known by its literal English translation Left Right, formed an inexplicable gloom around my tired being following ten hours of bad-weathered road trip. Wang Xiaoshuai’s brilliance as the director and lead-actress Liu Weiwei’s convincing performance tangoed all over me like unutterable snowflakes of affliction. I was emotionally exhausted, feeling like a hundred-year-old building begging to be accidentally forgotten.

Victorian Square, listed in the National Register of Historic Buildings, is located in the downtown Lexington, Kentucky. The square was established since the 1880’s, featuring a block of sixteen buildings of shops and an opera house. In 1985, the square was renovated to improve the accessibility while preserving the architectural elements of these historical buildings.