Twenty-nine-year-old Alan's life is a standard circle. The center of the circle is the son's progress, and the radius is the husband Xiaosong and the accountant certificate that he will never pass. The days cycle through the stove, school and exam preparation books, calm and dry, like a deep well, unable to see my own shadow.
Until she met 24-year-old A Lan in the stairwell of the hospital.
A-Lan was like a wildfire, involuntarily crashing into A-Lan's orderly but lifeless world. She followed, she wandered, and she said: "If... I mean if, you need help with anything, you can come to me."
On one side is the suffocating stability, the husband's increasingly cold attitude, and the son's ignorant and dependent eyes.
On one side is the dangerous but fresh heartbeat brought by A Lan, the stolen time on Friday afternoon, the wind by the river and the silence that does not need explanation.
Alan stood in the middle, with the cliff of life at his feet. One step forward is an abyss, one step back is a desert.
When the secret was exposed to the sound of police sirens, when her husband coldly put the multiple-choice question in front of her, when she burst into tears in a deserted alley late at night. The man who had been pushed away by her but who stubbornly came back again and again held her cold hand again.
This time, Alan must make a choice for himself.
It's about endurance, about escape, about an ordinary woman trying to find herself in the middle of life.
Character introduction:
Alan: 29 years old, a tired mother and wife, struggling between family responsibilities and self-disappearance.
A Lan: 24 years old, a free and uninhibited young woman. Her appearance is like a mirror, reflecting all the wrinkles and unhappiness of A Lan's life.
Intention: reflect reality, but it is not reality