Sailing Back to the Sea of ​​People

Retired department official Xiao Xiaotian said goodbye to his routine workplace life and started a Didi ride-hailing service in order to find new value in life. As the steering wheel turned, he entered the urban world that he had never touched before: from square dancing aunts who argued over territory, college students who dreamed of illustration, to former subordinates who were in debt and asked for help, and volunteer teachers who stuck to the mountains. During the journey of about a year, he met ordinary people from different professions and different situations, and witnessed their sadness and perseverance, confusion and love. He used a notebook to record every story - including the tenacity of a single mother setting up a stall late at night, the nostalgia of overseas students when they returned home, and the obsession of old teachers with education. While listening to other people's stories, Xiao Xiaotian also re-examined his own life: repairing the emotional bond with his family, regaining his enthusiasm for life, gradually becoming an "actioner" from a "recorder", and warming others with small kindnesses. This work uses Xiao Xiaotian's journey of taking orders to connect the various aspects of life in the urban fireworks, explores the value of retirement life, the warmth of family and friendship, and ultimately conveys the warm theme of "ordinary life also has light, retirement is not the end but a new starting point".