Breakfast is a family event in this Pingyao household. All four members are playing a part. Even the father is here – an abstracted figure at the back of the image. I watched as the young girl in red, accompanied by her younger brother, gently carried the hot pot out the door and down a neighboring street. As she vanished around a corner she looked back at me and smiled. And that is how my story begins. Where to from here? What is in that little pot, and who gets to enjoy it? How do the family dynamics in this culture differ from our own? Such questions generate their own stories, all of them in the minds of my viewers.