On a street set to vanish with redevelopment, a grandmother suffers a stroke and loses what little freedom she had. Conflict between her Children deepens at her bedside, prompting re- flection on her past in a startling portrait of honesty in the face of death. The first of a four-part series documenting the “ancient urban community” of West Street, “The Vanishing Spring Light” follows Grandma Jiang in her final days. The matriarch of an ordinary Chinese family, she has suffered a stroke after an ac- cidental fall. As her health deteriorates, conflicts within the fam- ily begin to emerge. While Grandma Jiang is consumed by her illness, the family struggles to avoid collapse. “The Vanishing Spring Light” is a film about a family’s love and loss, obligation and attachment, guilt, transformation and destiny.