2021, Shanghai.
47-Year-old Shen Mingzhang was laid off by a foreign company and pretended to work for three months without telling his family. At the same time, his wife Li Peiru was marginalized in the state-owned enterprise, and the monthly loan reminder message for the unfinished investment house rang on time - 13,600, with 25 years left.
Daughter Shen Duo wanted to get into the music academy, but she was too worried about the 300,000 yuan fee to speak out; her son Shen Yan's grades declined before the college entrance examination, so he hid in a convenience store and worked night shifts to earn tuition; his father-in-law Li Guodong was hospitalized for cerebral ischemia, and his mother-in-law Chen Xiuying secretly took sleeping pills.
This three-generation home was pushed to the edge of a cliff overnight.
Shen Mingzhang took off his suit and went to a logistics company with a monthly salary of 23,000 yuan. He started to regain his footing by running long distances with trucks. My son was admitted to Wuhan University, my daughter was admitted to the Affiliated High School, and my sister who had been missing for 18 years came into the house this winter.
In the spring of the next year, Shen Mingzhang went to Wuhan University alone to see the cherry blossoms and stood in front of his son. Shen Yan said: "Dad, thank you."
This is not a comeback story. The mortgage will be repaid for another twenty-five years, and the white hair will no longer turn black. But when the shell of "Dream City" peels off, they learn the most important thing: just be together.
Concept: How do ordinary people keep the place called "home" in the ups and downs of the times?