War reporter Qi Yu ends his ten-year career abroad. After returning to China, he follows scattered clues and rushes to the ice city of Harbin to look for Jiang Cheng, a girl he loved but missed when he was young. On that snowy night, he finally found her as a single mother, but found that she hid too many secrets: her five-year-old son Nian Nian's life experience was a mystery, and she was seriously ill but insisted on working, and there was always an inextricable tiredness and tenacity in her eyes. The warmth of the rekindled old relationship was quickly shattered by reality - Qi Yu was forced to go abroad again, and distance and suspicion caused the two to drift apart. Five years later, when Qi Yu finally returned, he accidentally discovered an ice cream brand with "Nian Yu" printed on it, which connected all the truths buried by time: the child in the depths of the snowy night, the emergency call from the hospital, the woman who still read his name while dying in the emergency room... It turns out that the most affectionate confession is the silence she wrote with her life; the heaviest longing is the nostalgia hidden in the names of the two children that spans life. This is a sadomasochistic reunion spanning ten years, an extremely affectionate episode about love and sacrifice, secrets and protection. The snow in the North falls silently, covering all the confessions that have no time to be spoken, but the longing will never end.
Intent: Silent Sacrifice: On the struggle and choice of individuals in the torrent of destiny