Contemporary women's spiritual journey back home. Thirty-one-year-old Lin Wantang is a senior lawyer at a well-known law firm in Beijing. His career is flourishing, but he is drifting away from his hometown and his father. Seven years ago, she left Anrong after breaking up with her father and never returned. When she received the news that her father was seriously ill and rushed back to this small seaside town, she faced an old man with hemiplegia who needed long-term rehabilitation, an old house that had been vacant for seven years, and a father-daughter relationship that was riddled with holes by time and silence.
During the several months of care, Lin Wantang was forced to slow down the pace of life of the urban elite, relearn to get along with his father, relearn to think in his mother tongue, and relearn to accommodate himself in a meal, a rehabilitation training, and a long chat. She met Zhou Yan, her high school crush, a man who also wavered between the distance and her hometown; she reunited with her best friend Su Jin, who had never left An Rong, a woman who protected her family in the simplest way. In her conversations with them, in every silence and reconciliation with her father, she gradually saw clearly the essence of her "escape" over the years.
