In the afternoon of 2008, when the cicadas were chirping at their peak, Zhou Weixi heard a mistaken phone call from a name he thought had sunk to the bottom of the water.
Lin Xu, her childhood sweetheart, was also her first betrayal. He lives in the huge shadow of his parents, twisting the expression of love into hurt and temptation. And she carried the old wounds of her original family with her, and forgave her again and again until she left her hometown.
In the rain and fog in London, she met Shen Zhiyuan. The man who was more than ten years older than her was like a sober and distant mirror. He taught her to grow up, but late one night he made a promise that she didn't dare to touch. She knew that once some warmth was accepted, it would become a transparent cage.
After returning to China, an old photo album accidentally discovered and a past event buried by time slowly emerged. It turns out that the unresolved entanglements of the previous generation have already cast a long shadow on them. She, Lin Xu, and Shen Zhiyuan seemed to be repeating a similar script.
This is the back-and-forth cycle of love and betrayal between two generations, and it is also the process of a woman slowly finding an exit in the maze of emotion and destiny. There is no sudden success, only reconstruction day after day - on the ruins of the past, establishing a territory of one's own that is not dependent on anyone.
When the summer cicadas chirp again, the phone may ring again. But this time, she has understood: the real shore is not in anyone's hands, but in her own feet.
Intention: Hate the sea and love the sky