Peach Blossom River, a river that flows silently, witnesses the fate of the reincarnation of the daughters along the river for generations.
More than twenty years later, Lin Limei, who is now a successful businessman, returns to her hometown with her daughter Mei Xiang, trying to reconcile with the humiliating past that was crushed by her mentally retarded husband and her powerful aunt. This land buried her youth, but it also tempered her rebirth.
At the same time, Wu Yanran, a reporter from the provincial capital, followed the fallen flowers to the riverside, persistently exploring an old case - Guo Ziyan, who committed suicide in front of his father's grave. There seemed to be a more complicated secret behind his tragedy. She walked along the river bank, and her camera focused not only on the deserted villages and solemn tombs, but also on the tragedies of women buried by time: Wu Lanlan, who paid a heavy price for her "incest" love, Fu Jinhua, who traveled to the mountains for love and was finally saved, and Lin Limei's own journey of blood and tears that made her rise from despair.
There are too many similar fates hidden in the whirlpool of the Peach Blossom River: repressed desires, sacrificed dignity, and struggles wrapped up in the times. The returning Lin Limei and the searching Wu Yanran, one is trying to reconcile with the past, the other is determined to uncover the scars. Their trajectories intersect on the riverside, and gradually lead to an even more surprising connection - Wu Yanran's mother Wu Lanlan was the woman who was deeply entangled with the tragedy of Peach Blossom River. The daughter's pursuit is getting closer to the truth that her mother spent her life escaping from.
The river carries fallen flowers and blood and tears, and re-engages the living and the dead, the past and the present, into the torrent of fate. The struggle and perdition, sacrifice and rebirth of those daughters by the river will eventually compose a long song about suffering, perseverance and redemption in the sound of the Peach Blossom River.
Real and objective, derived from life