"Island" tells the story of three people looking for a balance between marriage and themselves.
Wu Junli, who has reached middle age, is facing a failed marriage. She works as a promoter in a supermarket and raises her son Zhao Yu alone, living in poverty. Her ex-husband Zhao Fei has remarried to the smart and capable Wu Mengfei, and their life is bright. When Zhao Yu had a conflict with his mother over a pair of brand-name running shoes, Wu Junli realized on the verge of collapse: Only by learning to love yourself first can you love your loved ones better. She started as a nail salon apprentice and went through many hardships. Five years later, she owned her own nail salon chain store and regained her confidence and dignity.
Zhao Fei seemed to have an enviable marriage, but during his career crisis, he discovered that his relationship with Wu Mengfei was always separated by a layer of rational calculation. He began to miss the unconditional support his ex-wife had given him, and tasted the loneliness of middle age in alcohol and memories. Wu Mengfei rose from a failed marriage with shrewdness and independence. She loves Zhao Fei, but she loves the order and security she established even more.
13-Year-old Zhao Yu is torn between the two worlds of his parents. He longs for the material superiority provided by his father, but is also unable to let go of the emotional connection with his mother. After witnessing his mother's difficult upbringing, he gradually understood the complexity of the adult world.
In the end, Wu Junli found herself on the journey to Yunnan, Zhao Fei boarded the train to Xinjiang and started over, and Wu Mengfei continued to manage her orderly life. Everyone is like an isolated island, experiencing ebbs and flows in the ocean of life, learning to stand alone and learning to connect from a distance.
Concept: Core concept: Everyone is an isolated island. The task of life is not to find the shore that will never separate, but to learn to stand firmly on one's own land, and to know how to maintain a respectful, independent and occasionally distant connection with other islands in the ebb and flow of the tide. This is not a cool article about "revenge" or "counterattack", but a sober sketch about "reconstruction" - rebuilding life, rebuilding relationships, and ultimately, rebuilding yourself. What it ultimately points to is a sober modern survival wisdom: cultivate a complete self in inevitable loneliness; still choose to move forward after understanding the limitations of human nature.