Homecoming

Tao Bujiang is swept through time by an accident and arrives forty years in the future, where she meets her own elderly self. The older woman has never married or had children, and is plagued by illness. Her life seems pretty miserable, doesn’t it? She lives in a special retirement home for “leftover women,” where she matches wits with the caregivers every day. They call her “the potty-mouthed old hag” and “a nightmare even for ghosts.” Maybe things are even worse than they seem?

A novice in the kitchen, the younger Tao accidentally becomes the retirement home’s head chef thanks to her 108 instant-noodle recipes. Deciding to make the best of it, she stays to look after her older self.

Among these old fairies are an ageless beauty, an Alzheimer’s patient devoted to researching memory drugs, a marriage fanatic who still believes in love, a saucy old lady who loves telling dirty jokes, and a writer who churns out melodramatic novels every day. The young Tao leads them in drinking milk tea, eating barbecue, playing online games, and following celebrities. Her arrival shakes up the lifeless retirement home and changes it dramatically.

A boy who delivers vegetables for his father over the summer, and her best friend’s youngest son, newly returned from abroad, are both smitten with her younger self. How will she, a woman from the past, handle it? And when it’s time to part, what will she choose?

A conversation between youth and old age, a reflection between the present and the future. When faced with what we have lost and what we still possess, is there really a right choice to make, or a right thing to give up? A Place to Return, where the heart finds its home and all is made whole. Watch her transmigrate through time and take a very different retirement home by storm.