45-Year-old Chen Yuan is the vice president of the industry giant "Xunke Technology" with an annual salary of one million and is very satisfied. He thought that the golden steps under his feet would stretch all the way to retirement and become a good story.
However, a cold global layoff notice instantly "optimized" him and the entire Chinese branch. Yesterday he was still giving advice to the country, but today he was holding the cardboard box and left sadly under the complicated eyes of his young subordinates.
Mortgage, car loan, tuition for children's international school, panic of stay-at-home housewife... The delicate shell of middle-class life was shattered in an instant. He put down his body and looked for jobs everywhere, but he repeatedly hit the "age ceiling", and his once brilliant resume became obsolete waste paper.
In the darkest moment of his life, he and two equally frustrated middle-aged colleagues - laid off ace salesman Zhao Hui and technology expert Lao Wu - made the craziest decision in desperation: to start a business!
Get down and start from scratch. They squeeze into small shared offices, continue outsourcing projects that they once looked down upon, compete with the younger generation, laugh at the wine table, and worry about cash flow late at night. This is a last-ditch battle about dignity, family and value.
From "company gone" to "created company", from "unemployed vice president" to "entrepreneurial boss", can he find a way out for himself and his partners through the fault lines of the times? "45 Years old, the company is gone" tells a true story about fall, struggle and rebirth, and pays tribute to everyone who chooses to fight for themselves again in the middle-aged dilemma!
