"Xiaoman's Tin Box" uses an old tin box with peeling paint as a guide to connect Lin Xiaoman's deliberately dusty past and his sudden return.
Before she was eight years old, the locust flowers in her old house in Nancheng were the sweetest background in Lin Xiaoman's memory. Until a high fever wiped out most of her childhood, she followed her grandmother to a foreign country. From then on, she was separated from that city by an unforgettable warning - "If you forget about Nancheng, just forget it, and don't look back."
In the ordinary life of a librarian for five years, the tin box always stood quietly on the bedside table, like the last line of defense left by my grandmother. Until an old letter from Nancheng broke the calm. There was only one sentence in the letter: "The locust flowers are blooming. It's time for you to come back and take a look." The handwriting in the letter, the unsigned sender, the old locust tree blown down by the typhoon in my memory, the little boy who always drew the sun crookedly... All the "forgotten" fragments began to loosen.
Lin Xiaoman finally opened the tin box. In addition to the new letter, there was also a yellowed old photo, with "Forgot" written by her grandmother on the back. But some ties engraved on her bones will eventually guide her back to the starting point along with the scent of locust flowers. This journey home is about searching for lost memories, unraveling past events that grandma doesn't want to mention, and reassembling a complete self - those "forgotten" things may be what she should remember the most.
