In an autobiographical manner, the film opens with Lee’s memory of his first figure drawing class in middle school in the 1990s, when his art teacher brought out a real human skull from the storeroom. The skull, unearthed together with two Japanese military swords during the school’s renovation in the 1980s, revealed a history of erasure from the time of the Japanese occupation, alluding to the Nanshitou Incident.

George and the Swimming Pool is part one of the series The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea.

The Narrow Road to the Deep Sea explores the trauma of displacement under the shadow of persecution during the Second World War, focusing on Hong Kong, mainland China, and Japan.

At its centre is the little-known brutality that happened in Nanshitou, at the outskirts of Canton (now Guangzhou), China. Between 1942 and 1945, under Japanese occupation, around 800,000 Hong Kong residents were deported; many were sent to Canton and detained at the Nanshitou Refugee Camp. There, countless individuals endured forced labour, human experimentation, and bacteriological testing.

The work turns to voices often absent from dominant histories, tracing states of fear, survival, and fragile resilience. The refugee camp emerges as both a detention centre and site of medical exploitation, suspended between life and death.

Through archival research, field study, interviews, and artistic practice, including film, photography, performance, and sculpture, the project re-examines forgotten narratives and unsettles memory.

影像以自傳式的方式展開，回溯藝術家在上世紀九十年代中學時期的美術教育記憶。

在第一堂素描課上，美術老師從儲物室中取出了一具人類頭骨。據悉，這副骸骨於八十年代學校擴建時出土，與兩把日本軍刀一同被發現。它揭示了一段被抹除的日佔歷史，並牽連至南石頭事件。

《佐治與游泳池》為《通向深海的狹道》系列的第一章。

《通向深海的狹道》探討二次世界大戰期間，香港、中國大陸與日本在戰爭逼迫所引發的流離與創傷。

作品的核心指向一場鮮為人知的殘酷事件——發生於中國廣州郊區南石頭的屠殺。1942 至 1945年間，香港在日佔統治下，約八十萬名居民被各種理由驅逐或遣返至中國。當中不少人被送往廣州南石頭難民收容所。難民飽受強迫勞動、人體實驗與細菌學試驗之苦。

藝術家透過文獻、田野考察與訪談等研究方法重新探尋這段被遮蔽的歷史，並以影像、展演、攝影與雕塑等創作回應，試圖呈現主流敘事之外的聲音，叩問既有的歷史判斷，並挖掘潛藏於人心深處的人性。

在懲罰與暴行的背後，作品編織起那些被遺忘的個體聲音，折射出多樣的人性、心理狀態與掙扎求生的過程。難民收容所既是拘禁之地，也是醫學實驗與數據蒐集的場域，更是一處前途未卜、懸置生死的所在。