An unexpected fall beneath the plane trees in 1998, three tapes hiding secrets, and seventeen years of lost contact. When rusted carvings meet the snow of a reunion, what they thought was coincidence turns out to be the inevitable result of someone waiting a lifetime. That call of “Catch me,” was it a mistake, or a confession hidden away for twenty-six years?
One tape awakens seventeen years of emptiness, and one reunion lays bare the feelings left unspoken. Liu Qiaoyi’s passion, Xiao Yixue’s silence, and Lu Jin’an’s steadfast devotion: their promise beneath the plane trees has long been etched into the rings of the trees. Each of them holds half the truth. Only when they put the pieces together do they realize that every “missed chance” was really “waiting on purpose.”
The university application forms of 2008 sent the three of them scattering across the world. The snowy night of 2024 brought them back together beneath the old tree. The marbles in the hole in the wall, the letters never sent, and the choked sobs on the tapes all say the same thing: during the sixteen years apart, they never truly drifted away. But will the choice buried by time make everything return to the beginning after their reunion?
