When up-and-coming writer Lin Fan publicly confessed to his boyfriend Jiang Yu at a book launch, he thought it was the bravest footnote of love. However, this public gaze has become a rope dragging them into the abyss.
Overnight, Lin Fan's "success" turned into the family's "shame", and Jiang Yu's platform was also in danger. Kidnapped in the name of love, they were sent to a place called "Xiangyang Education Center" - a rehabilitation center that used high walls and iron mesh to isolate freedom and use "treatment" to cover up persecution.
Here, love is the original sin and confession is a stubborn disease. The writer's sharp pen was forced to write the "Confessions", and the teacher's clear voice was ordered to recite the "Correction Sutra". Electric shock, humiliation, isolation... Systematic torture attempts to destroy their will and force them to deny their souls.
But in the silent confinement room, in the eyes that met, they persevered in a way that only each other understood: Lin Fan weaved resistance into absurd stories, and Jiang Yu used silence to maintain his final dignity. Two hearts get closer under extreme oppression, and love becomes the only light in the darkness.
This is a life and death game about love and dignity. Not only do they have to face institutional domestication, but they also have to contend with the "expectations" from their loved ones. When lies are packaged as truth, can they use their true selves to tear open this cage of hypocrisy?
Can a writer and a teacher, two people whose careers are based on their souls, win back their lives and light with love and wisdom?
