28-Year-old Su Wan was shattered in her workplace in Shanghai - the project was aborted, the team broke up, and even late-night coffee couldn't warm her heart. When packing her luggage, she found an old photo left by her grandmother: in front of the old Hui-style house in Huangling, Wuyuan, her grandmother stood under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree with a smile, and the words "Come back when you are tired" were written on the back.
She brought the photos to the ancient village, met the silent house builder Cheng Yan in the rain and fog on the bluestone road, and tasted the long-lost smoke of fireworks in Grandma Cheng's warm glutinous rice cakes. The dilapidated old homes need to be repaired, the intangible cultural heritage workshops need to be saved, and the developer's excavator is still eyeing the village entrance.
She was once an elite planner in an office building, but now she has learned how to spread chili peppers on the drying rack, cook tea cakes in the old oil mill, and use live broadcast footage to amaze the entire network with the autumn scenery of the ancient village. When grandma's old diary revealed the secrets of the old house, and when Cheng Yan's drawings painted the future of the ancient village, Su Wan finally understood: healing is never about escaping, but like sunbathing in autumn, spreading your worries in the sun, letting the wind and fireworks turn the days into sweetness.
This is a story about saying goodbye to anxiety and taking root in life. It is also an agreement made by a group of people to protect the fireworks in the ancient village - the autumn sun is just right, waiting for you to have an autumn date.
