17-Year-old Huaimu is the most "standard" product of the Chinese education assembly line - her beautiful face is hidden in her large school uniform, and her excellent grades are her only label. Her parents' expectations, teachers' trust, and the discipline of "getting into a good university" are like an airtight net, trapping her in the cage of test papers and scores. She would secretly shed tears when answering questions late at night, and she would muster up the courage to refute after failing in a test, but she would always be blocked by the reason of "for your own good"; she had secretly drawn rabbits in exercise books, and had a secret love for literature, but she could only hide her true self deeper and deeper in the argument of "prospect first".
The story begins with 26-year-old Huaimu burning her high school uniform, and connects her ten-year trajectory from the age of 17 to 26 in reverse order. From the depression of the countdown to the college entrance examination, the confusion in a prestigious school, to the disguise in the workplace and the arranged life, she seems to have become a "winner in life" in the eyes of others, but the cry that was not heard when she was 17 years old always echoes in her heart. This is not an essay indicting education, but a long redemption about "self" - when all external standards have faded, can Huaimu break free of the invisible shackles and find the true self that was forgotten in the exercise book?
Purpose: Beyond scores, find the true value coordinates of life