It was spring 1969. The world was undergoing amazing changes. Man had yet to wait another 6 months before he would set foot on the moon. And our young protagonist was running wild on the streets of Hong Kong wearing a fish bowl for a space helmet.

Yes, he is the self-proclaimed first astronaut of Hong Kong, and he sees the world with a strange sense of wit and angle.

"Echoes of the Rainbow" revolves around the kid’s struggling family: a shoe-maker father who treads in a pair of old torn sandals; a happy-go-lucky mother who believes that anything and everything is possible; an aspiring, starry-eyed elder brother who daydreams with his tropical fish; and our little hero who can proudly recite the 26 English alphabets backwards.

And along with these characters, we travel back to a time when all things were new, all girls were charming, all grown-ups were unfathomable, and all stories were, simply, beautiful.

Or so they seemed.