Five years ago, my cousin Lin Ze left the home full of violence and control without saying a word.
Five years later, he received a call from his aunt. My aunt has a weak voice and has been in a wheelchair for five years. She only said in a low voice: "Ze'er, please come back... Taotao can't hold it anymore."
When Lin Ze returned to his hometown, he saw a heartbreaking scene. Cousin Gu Tao was so thin that he lost his shape, his eyes were empty, and his body was covered with new injuries and old ones. Sitting in the old wheelchair, his aunt looked at him, her eyes filled with unspeakable guilt and helplessness.
Only then did he realize that the price of his escape all these years had fallen entirely on his cousin. The uncle was wandering around outside, and when he came home, he became drunk and crazy, beat and scolded his wife and son, and tore the family into pieces.
Lin Ze's heart felt as if something had pinched him hard. He suddenly realized that he might have become his cousin's only hope.
And what about Gu Tao? He once resented his cousin for cruelly leaving him to face all this alone, but when his cousin came back, he mustered up the courage for the first time to face the deepest and most painful wound in his heart.
They are cousins who are not close by blood, but they are also strangers who are most familiar with each other.
Intention: The escaped cousin and the trapped cousin, under the same roof, try to shine light into the deepest wounds together with their late companionship.