It's been ten years since autumn in Shanghai. Meng Xun's marriage was shattered unexpectedly on a snowy night in Suzhou. Her ex-husband Gao Shuheng ran for a self-righteous "rebirth", leaving her with her six-year-old son Gao Yi, a shabby old man, and a hollowed-out heart.
She thought her life had entered the winter. However, life peels off the warm shell of illusion and reveals the solid ground. As a child, Xuzhou dragged her out of the quagmire and placed her in a Xincheng apartment, allowing her to regain her roots in the sober world of data and bills. Middle school teacher Wang Ruizhe is like a warm, unhurried sunset, quietly approaching the scarred world of her and her children with quiet patience and clear boundaries.
It's been a slow recovery. About how a woman rebuilds her own life logic and inner order brick by brick on the ruins; about how an adult relationship is simmered in a "slow fire" and tempered out of the resistance of children, the shadows of the past, and the triviality of reality. The qualities called "trust" and "stability"; it is also about the fate of three women - Meng Xun who is tenacious in rebuilding, Xuzhou who is sober and independent, and Li Wen who is shrewd and dependent - who make their own choices and reflect each other in the torrent of time and emotion.
