In time flowing backward, two souls walk in opposite directions, yet are destined to meet.
He sees her future, her hair white with age; she witnesses his past, his youth in full bloom. Only the instant they embrace becomes the one point where their paths intersect in the paradox of time.
When the methodical mind of an engineer meets the hidden vulnerability of an engineer, from campus laboratories to the roar of machine shops, they calculate love with equations and sketch out the future with blueprints.
Through the time difference of a long-distance relationship, under the shadow of depression, and amid the underhanded attacks of workplace bullying, every voice of doubt becomes nourishment for their growth against the grain.
This is not simply a sweet romance. Against the backdrop of China’s manufacturing boom, two engineers build a life together with screws and gears. When precise calculations meet the unpredictable variables of emotion, and time flowing backward meets two people moving toward each other, they prove at last, in a crack in time, that true encounters have nothing to do with direction.
Very real campus love, reminds me of the past.