Screenwriter Zhou Wen is moving forward with a heavy burden in the cracks of the times. On one side is the main theme project "Silence" that must be "absolutely safe and correct", and he is forced to refine the doubtful history of his father's generation into a glorious ode; on the other side is the commercial drama "Shanghai Love" that pursues "the ultimate hit", and he constantly adjusts the sweetness and danger of the market. Switching between two narrative logics day and night, he tried to hide some cold imprints of historical truth and personal pain in the fictional layer. At the same time, his silent wife, young daughter, distant parents, and his declining health constitute another silent debt demand. When internal and external consumption reaches its limit and the system loses patience with his "unstable output", Zhou Wen must make a choice: whether to completely reduce himself to a smooth production part, or to save himself the last "real" and silent embers in the mess. This is a story about creation, discipline, forgetfulness and weak resistance.
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