Spring 1986, in the early years of reform and opening up, was a transitional era when the planned and market economies intertwined. State-owned factories faced pressure to transform, while private businesses were just beginning to emerge. A modern internet entrepreneur collides with the state-owned factory system of the 1980s; the mindset of information technology clashes with traditional production methods, and memories of the future sit uneasily alongside present-day realities. After a car accident, Cheng Mo, CEO of an internet company in 2023, wakes up in a workers’ hospital in 1986. He finds himself young again in the mirror, his body returned to the age of twenty-two.
