The Place You Want to Escape From and Return To

Period setting + Realistic + No contrived plot twists + No rebirth + Not a power fantasy + Light ensemble cast

This little mountain village was a place three people born in the 1980s desperately wanted to escape when they were young.

It trapped their ambitions and held back their ideals, its streets filled with the humdrum bustle of ordinary life and a sense of helplessness.

Only after half a lifetime had passed, after weathering storms, seeing prosperity, and experiencing life's ups and downs, did they suddenly realize:

This was also the tender world they could never return to in this lifetime.

One group's youth came to an end; three people set off on different paths through life.

As the years turned, the greatest regret was never poverty, but that we had lost the people we once were.