Nan Xi, an old photo restorer, fixed his life ten years before his fiancée died. Nian Nian, a seven-year-old aphasic girl, walked into his store holding an old whale stuffed doll - it was sewn by her fiancée. There was a damaged roll of film hidden in the doll's belly, pointing to a small town in the south.
A man who doesn't step forward, a child who doesn't speak. A roll of film that may contain secrets, a search spanning ten years.
From the snow country in the north to the rainy season in the south, they look for answers that can reveal time. In the end, I discovered that it was not him who was repairing the photo, but the child, using her quiet presence to repair herself trapped in time bit by bit.
There are some things in this world that time cannot take away. Such as love, such as memory, such as someone telling you: you are never alone.
