On the day of the divorce, it was clear and rainless. Lin Shutong, an architect who has worked hard in Beijing for half his life, just ended a cold marriage when he received the news that his mother was missing. He was forced to embark on a journey home after twenty years and returned to Shuangxi Town, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.
The once glamorous and alienated urban life suddenly disappeared, replaced by her dementia mother who did not recognize her, a damp old house full of memories, and the unexpected reunion of her teenage crush Shen Zhijie. In the trivial daily life of taking care of her mother, she pieced together her mother's forgotten bravery and tenderness bit by bit, and gradually saw clearly her absent family ties and desolate heart.
From being forced to stay to taking the initiative to take root, from blaming each other to reconciliation between brother and sister, from restraining each other to being connected, Lin Shutong finally learned to make peace with his original family, failed marriage, and exhausted self in the time that slowed down.
My mother's memory gradually faded, but her love never left. When the spring breeze blew through the town again, she finally understood that all belated returns, belated reconciliations, and belated springs would eventually arrive at the warmest destination.
