The water of Chenhe River is as green as spring when tea leaves are brewing. Xiuhe, a girl at the ferry, has a small mole in the corner of her eye, like a drop of ink on a white paper.
She thought she was a child abandoned by her mother, who remarried when she was three years old and has not been heard from since.
At the age of eighteen, the arrival of a strange old man revealed the entire truth about her life experience:
My mother did not remarry, but was abducted into the "Jianmu River" deep in the mountains. It was a hell for abducted women, a forbidden place for poor families to marry and have children, and a place where Xiu He's mother called out her daughter's name before she died.
Dad didn't drown accidentally, he fell into a trap while helping others lead the way and never came back.
Grandpa hated Manjia for eighteen years and threw the rice oil sent by Manjia into the river every year. But grandpa was wrong - Man's father was not his enemy, but his sworn brother.
When all the secrets were revealed layer by layer, the people at Chenhe Ferry finally learned one thing: some waiting is worth a lifetime. Some truths take a lifetime to find. And some people, even if they are separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, life and death, will never forget your name.
