Xu Chuan, the owner of a secondhand goods shop, can hear every item he takes in speak.
When a music box turns, it sings of a wedding that never took place thirty years ago. Inside the collar of an old qipao lies a name someone has kept hidden for half a lifetime. A scrapped washing machine has a slip of paper covered in numbers wedged in its drum.
People say he collects junk. Only he knows he is collecting the secrets, regrets, and unsaid words that others have thrown away.
Every old thing has a story, and every story is waiting for an ending.
