When her grandmother became seriously ill, Lin Zhao received a letter that was more than twenty years late. The sender is Su Man, the mother who suddenly disappeared during her childhood and was deemed by everyone to "don't want her".
She originally thought that she was just the daughter who was left behind. But as she followed old letters, old books, old photos, and scraps of words from old neighbors, she discovered that her mother's departure could not be explained by simply saying "I don't love her anymore." Moreover, the father who was most like a victim and the grandmother who loved her the most were not innocent in that old incident.
This is a story about a daughter asking why her mother left. It is also a story about a woman who finally learned not to define herself by "who left her behind."
Purpose: Breaking intergenerational trauma and learning self-definition and reconciliation