Zhang Wanling, who has been divorced for seven years, lives with her son Zhang Ziming, who is a sophomore in high school. She has abundant material resources but cannot conceal her inner desolation. The years go back and forth like the tide, like the rising sea water pushing her inch by inch to the lonely reef. When she tried to find solace in the words of the book club, the prayers of the church, and the purring of stray cats, she was always defeated by the waves of memory. When dusk spread over the window sill, she could still only lean on the balcony railing, listen to the sound of the tide to drown out the unspoken loneliness, and wait for a new wave of life that would arrive at an unknown time.
Taboo ethics, symbiotic bonds, and boundary exploration—mother and son struggling in ambiguous tension explore the paradox of dependence and boundaries amid incompleteness and trauma.
Intention: Reconciling with the trivialities of time