Art student Lin Che's first love was the moment when the profile of assistant teacher Lu Yu overlapped with the ideal in the painting.
Borrowing umbrellas on rainy nights, making secret appointments in the library, exchanging body heat and vows in an old apartment - they thought that by being careful, they could hold on to their own in a world of prejudice.
Until that kiss was caught by a loved one.
Until his family members who were "for your own good" deceived him into a rehabilitation center.
It wasn't until the electroshock device was turned on that he saw the new counselor standing in the corner "recording" turned out to be Lu Yu, who had been forced to disappear.
"Treatment" is a public reading of love letters written for him, acknowledging that loving him is a disease.
Resistance is carving butterflies on the corners of the wall with fingernails, and using aluminum foil from medicine boxes to draw 37 similarly trapped souls.
The agreement was on August 15th, the night of the full moon, and he said he would take him away.
But the system has already woven a dragnet.
A car accident on a rainy night, a missing person list, a blood letter saying "It's dawn"...
Lu Yu overturned the entire correctional empire with a report, but the person who painted the butterfly could never be found.
Five years later, the anonymous picture book "The Eyes of a Survivor" was quietly published.
The title page reads: "Love is not a disease, forgetfulness is."
Lu Yu knew that it was Lin Che saying in another way:
"I love you forever, with all the wind that blows in your ears in August."
Purpose: Opposing systemic violence in the name of "corrective treatment", exploring the nature and diversity of love, showing the power of art as a tool of resistance, and the trauma and dignity of individuals in a huge system.
