A sudden storm sweeps Li Dongping, a delivery company manager, into the whirlpool of fate. When he wakes from his coma, he finds himself stranded on an island surrounded by the sea. Despair washes over him like a tide. Then a voice breaks the silence: “Today is Saturday.” It belongs to a talking macaw, which he names Lao Liu. Even more astonishing are the island’s bizarre, reality-defying phenomena. Deep in the jungle, he finds an orphaned wolf pup. After taming it, he names it Wangcai. In this forgotten corner of the world, one man, one bird, and one wolf make up the island’s strangest picture of life.
The wreckage and supplies carried in by the storm become the spark of survival, while the days slip by with each sunrise and sunset. Li Dongping learns to identify edible wild fruit, builds a simple shelter, trades banter with Lao Liu to stave off boredom, and patrols alongside Wangcai. But their peace is shattered when he discovers that the sea is swallowing the shoreline at a visible pace. In just a few years, the island will be lost beneath the waves forever. Escape is his only choice.
He cobbles together a crude boat from empty barrels and water bottles, and time and again sails out into the open sea, driven by his longing for civilization, only to be shoved back by merciless waves. Each failure puts hope further out of reach, but the bond between the three companions grows ever stronger. When time cuts off their last avenue of retreat, Li Dongping knows he must set sail again, not for anything else, but for the dignity of being alive and his promise to make it home.
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