IN April, veteran actor Liu Kai-chi lost his youngest son, Man-lok, to leukaemia.
Later this month, he will play a biblical character who almost loses his son in the drama Abraham's Tear.
According to the Bible, God told Abraham to sacrifice his eldest son, Isaac, as a test of faith.
Abraham agrees to God's command and leads Isaac to the place where the offering will take place. He ties his son down, and, just as he is about to set fire to the altar, an angel appears and stops him. Isaac is saved and a ram is sacrificed instead.
No angel intervened to save Man-lok, however, and Liu, a Christian, couldn't help his son.
Man-lok was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of three. He underwent various treatments and, for a while, got better.