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MYSTERIOUS: Leading ladies - What They Never Told You

In Joey Wu's Bird Of Paradise (2026), Yeung, a middle-aged, worn-out housewife, spends her days cooking, cleaning and caring for her household with little time for herself. Where Henrik Ibsen's Nora in A Doll's House (1879) leaves her family to find freedom, Yeung's act of defiance is signing up for a pole dancing class.

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