The World Will Eventually Forget Us

The meeting of two lonely souls.

At 36, Yang Guoer is an independent curator and antique book restorer living on the edge of the city. After a failed exhibition opened her eyes to the art world’s greed and hypocrisy, she closed off her heart and set up a studio called Quiet Corner. Like a modern-day Xiaolongnü, she guards her own “Tomb of the Living Dead,” keeping company with old books and paintings and holding on to art’s purity in solitude.

At 22, He Muyang is a street graffiti artist who dropped out of art school. Having grown up without the warmth of a family, she rebels against the academy’s dogma. Like a weed growing wild, she pours her loneliness and longing for freedom onto walls with her paintbrush, drifting through the city streets with nowhere to call home.

One night, He Muyang is caught spray-painting the outside wall of Quiet Corner by Yang Guoer. What begins as an accidental clash turns into recognition between two lonely souls, thanks to the vitality and loneliness captured in the graffiti. Yang Guoer decides not to call the police and instead makes her stay at the studio to “work off the debt.” From then on, the unruly young woman enters the quiet world of the reserved woman.