Sixty-year-old Su Li meets thirty-year-old Shen Jin. He loves the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, saying they are the golden seams of time. But when a twenty-five-year-old art student named Vera “happens” to appear, with the same features Su Li had in her youth and the poise she has now, Shen Jin’s gaze begins to waver. He has no idea that the woman wiping away her wrinkles in front of the mirror and the young woman reflected there, reborn in youth, are using the same trembling hands to tear themselves in two, all to test whether “I love you” means loving the soul or the young body. Su Li sneers behind the listening device: You say you’re not after my money? Then let’s see if what you want is my youth. This test, born of distrust, will ultimately shatter and remake everyone involved.
