On the day Su Linwan was diagnosed with ALS, she wrote a sentence on the back of her medical record:
"If one day I die in the snow, please spread my ashes where the Yabuli No. 3 Cable Car passes."
Three months later, she dragged her suitcase and appeared in the snow field at minus 30 degrees Celsius, and found Lin Qichi, the legendary "last man to shoot skiing on film." He has been photographing snow in Yabuli for twenty years and never photographed people. She said, "Can you use film to capture the whole process from when I was able to skate to when I couldn't?" He refused: "I don't take pictures of people." She laughed: "Then you should just take pictures of two different snowflakes."
From that day on, she fell seventeen times in front of his camera before she could get the first shutter click. He taught her to push the slope, the slowest skiing movement, and she laughed and said it was "the slowest farewell." In the cable car, he talked about his lover who died in an avalanche ten years ago, and she found yellowing photos all over the wall in the wooden house. She said, "I don't want to be a substitute," and he called her by her full name for the first time: "Su Linwan."
She taught him two things: how to be close to someone, and how to live on after loss.
The day the snowstorm came, she insisted on skiing the intermediate trail for the last time. The visibility was less than ten meters. She turned around halfway up the slope and smiled at his camera. When the shutter clicked, she lay in the snow and said, "Stop taking pictures, just remember me."
During the snow season the next year, he walked into the mountains alone to look for the legendary "Tengxiang" for her, the place she had always wanted to go. In front of the snow-covered village ruins, he took out her photo and said into the distance, "Su Linwan, I took a look at it for you."
Concept: This is not a "terminal love" story. This is a story about "how people face destined loss". She lost her life and he lost her. They all learned - push the slope. Use the slowest speed to remember the most important people. Then, keep living.