26-Year-old Xu Man is a well-known "plan killer" in the Shenzhen advertising circle. He earns an annual salary of one million, but after being diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, he was dragged back to Anshui Town, a Hakka town in southern Gansu, by a phone call after eight years of absence.
The phone told her that Lin Yu, the boy she had loved her whole youth and had hidden for eight years, was getting engaged.
The clock tower in Anshui Town always stops at five-seventeen. That was the moment his father passed away and the moment they made a lifelong promise.
When she left without saying goodbye, Lin's mother forced her into a desperate situation; for the past eight years, she had been carrying the trauma of her original family and the weight of life in the reinforced concrete of the city, while he guarded the stopped clock tower, took 2,922 sunset photos, and waited for her for eight full years.
The reunion revealed the truth that was eight years late. He healed her body and mind with extreme tenderness, and she used her professional skills to make this Hakka town visible to more people.
The stopped bell tower will eventually ring again, and they will spend a lifetime making up for the eight years they missed. The sunset in Anshui Town will always remember all the people who love each other and how they stay together year after year.
Purpose: Using Anshui Town as a carrier, it tells the story of two-way travel and affectionate persistence spanning eight years, showing that love can heal the trauma of the original family and fill the regrets of life, interpreting that ordinary staying together is the core of eternal happiness, and at the same time conveying the positive concept of taking root in the hometown, mutual achievement, and realizing self-worth.