Once, in Beijing, a young girl in a red gown huddled in a doorway.

"Are you my mom?" she would ask to the passersby.

Some people would stop and inquire if she was lost, but she would just shake her head.

Some people would offer to take the girl with them to the police, but she would just run away down a narrow alley where they couldn't follow.

Most people would just ignore her and her perfect, shining red gown, taking her for some unlucky trickster.

But one day, a young woman came down the street, her eyes veiled in...