Chen Jianguo, an ordinary middle-aged man, was a common man who guarded an ordinary family and just wanted to live a stable life. He has a seriously ill wife who needs surgery, and children who are studying at school to raise. The burden of life is on his shoulders day after day. The meager income cannot support the family expenses, nor can it satisfy the anxiety about the future.
In desperation, he pinned his extravagant hopes of getting rich overnight on lottery tickets, mistakenly believing that this was a shortcut for people at the bottom to escape their difficulties. From the initial fluke of testing the waters with a small amount, to the paranoia that gradually fell into it, he struggled repeatedly between the fantasy of getting rich overnight and the reality of repeated failures. His original intention was to support a stable life for his family, but his out-of-control obsession made him deviate from the right track step by step. The originally ordinary but warm family gradually became precarious in this gamble in the name of love.
This is the sinking and struggle of a mortal under the heavy pressure of life. It describes the helplessness, greed and redemption of ordinary people at the bottom. It also describes the desolate life of ordinary people who are trapped by life in the world of fireworks, who are lost in obsession and find their way back in the brokenness.
