Double Happiness takes the Chinese copy of Hallstatt, a small idyllic town in Austria, as the starting point to explore China’s rapid urbanization. The film depicts the background and the motivation behind a real-estate project that constructs a clone of Hallstatt in Guangdong province. Addressing the many complexities of cultural appropriation, director Ella Raidel elegantly and evocatively unfolds the parallel worlds of the original and copy, real-life and fiction, dream and reality through an interplay of visual imagery, commentary, interviews and songs.