In the urban jungle of reinforced concrete, Lin Xia resolutely resigned from her glamorous position as an advertising director because her son was preparing for the high school entrance examination, and moved into a dilapidated school district house to start her career as a school companion. Faced with the rebellion of her adolescent son and the undercurrent of comparisons among other parents, she gradually lost herself in the trivial life. In the same building, the mysterious neighbor Lu Chen is experiencing a low point in his life. This once-powerful elite in the financial world was forced to retire due to an accident, and he lives with pill bottles and loneliness all day long.
Two souls who have been hit hard by life meet by chance in a narrow corridor. Lin Xia mistakenly recognized Lu Chen as her son's class teacher. A ridiculous misunderstanding unexpectedly opened up each other's defenses. When Lin Xia was worried about her children's studies, Lu Chen used his unique economic thinking to teach his children to plan their time; when Lu Chen was tortured by illness and lost hope of living, Lin Xia knocked on his door with a loving meal made by his son.
In the years when daily necessities and spiritual salvation were intertwined, the ups and downs of accompanying students became the catalyst for their transformation.