He arrived in the big city covered in the dust of the road, where he met her, the woman who made him want to settle down.
Debt was an invisible net, reality a cold wall. Two people struggling to survive once believed that holding hands would help them weather any storm. He gave up his wandering ways for her, and she kept her edge hidden for his sake. But the folds of everyday life held too much unspoken exhaustion and uncertainty.
From a rented apartment in Beijing to a workshop in Wenzhou, from standing side by side to admire the Great Wall to the wordless distance between them in the dead of night, their love was repeatedly crushed under the millstone of reality. When a test account shattered their false tenderness, and sincere devotion met with perfunctory responses, was this journey born of a spark of love a salvation that brought them together despite taking different paths, or a hollow promise built on misplaced trust?
Neon lights glitter in the big city, while the love and pain of ordinary people rise and fall beneath them. Can he and she hold on to that first spark of light amid the mire of life?
