Ruan Yansheng, a twenty-eight-year-old restorer of old objects, is so poor that he can hardly afford to pay the rent while guarding the "Reminder Repair Shop" left by his mother.
Until she repaired an old tape recorder that had been smashed.
When her fingertips touched the crack, she saw the ninety seconds before and after the old thing was broken - in the dark corridor, a woman was silently asking for help.
From then on, every old thing brings a buried life: the cut work badge hides the credit that was replaced, the stopped old clock guards an apology that was twenty years late, and the burnt ledger records a carefully forged betrayal...
Echoes cannot bear witness, but the truth cannot be silenced forever.
Ruan Yansheng is responsible for finding clues from the cracks, and legal aid lawyer Wen Shuheng is responsible for letting the clues come into the light. They help each woman regain her name, choice and life, and step by step they approach the same secret - Ruan Yansheng's mother, who has been missing for twelve years, may have never left this city.
That day, a wooden box that no one had sent for repair appeared on the counter.
In the memory, my mother looked back through the firelight:
"Yansheng, if you have seen me, they have also seen you."
