A Psychologist’s Notes

In a bustling city, experienced counselor Su Mu spends each day listening to other people’s stories. His notebooks hold the inner monologues of countless souls: some warm as spring sunshine, others as cold as winter. Here are people despairing over life, lost in love, afraid of death, and tenaciously searching for hope.

Behind every patient Su Mu sees lies a secret no one else knows: a woman afraid of the dark, a middle-aged man convinced he has a terminal illness, a young person pursuing perfection to the extreme, a teenager addicted to online games and misunderstood by everyone, and even an urban professional leading a double life. With his expertise and patience, Su Mu tries to loosen the shackles around each person’s heart.

Yet as he does, he also finds himself continually examining his own past: a fragmented childhood, his father’s mysterious identity, and the dark events he has kept buried for years. As one patient after another comes to see him, Su Mu gradually discovers that his fate is entwined with theirs in countless ways...