The film has three parts, set in the 1990s, the present, and in Australia in the year 2025, respectively. Mountains May Depart, which jumps through place and time from contemporary China to a futuristic Australia. Starring wife and muse Zhao Tao, it begins in the 1990s, the movie follows Tao and Dong, a young couple in love. Tao later leaves Dao to marry a wealthy mine owner. On his deathbed Dong meets Tao again; she is divorced and her son is exiled to Australia. The story jumps to Tao’s son in Australia in the year 2025. The only word in Chinese he still remembers is his mother’s name. (Source: 2015 Cannes Film Festival).