Lin Wu, a female painter who was once afraid of life and trapped herself in Fangcun Studio, and Chen Nian, a female researcher who is calm, restrained and not good at expressing, met by chance in a rental house in an old alley in late autumn.
Two people with the same regrets from the past slowly got closer to each other starting from sharing a cup of hot sugar water: they crowded together on the small balcony to watch the sunset, walked together on the river beach to pick up shells, Lin Wu dared to leave the studio to hold an art exhibition, and Chen Nan also learned to let go of his tight anxiety. They were quietly cowardly in their busy lives, both afraid that they could not keep up with each other, but in the end they untied their hearts on the river bank in late autumn and confirmed that each other was the person they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with.
From a rental house in an old alley to a new apartment that can be exposed to the sun, from a proposal under the sky full of fireflies at an art exhibition to a minimalist wedding in a sea of flowers in spring, the story of Lin Wu and Chen Nian is a story of two independent and gentle people, slowly getting closer, healing each other, and turning their trivial days into a romantic journey home.
Intention: A gentle note to all those who are used to closing themselves off:
Love is never a wave that forcibly breaks into an isolated island, nor is it a savior light that saves loneliness. It is two people with the same imperfections who are willing to respect each other's edges and corners, accept each other's past, slowly soften and get closer in companionship, and finally connect the two isolated islands into the same continent.
It also talks about: A truly stable intimate relationship is never about "who saves the other", but about two independent individuals who open themselves up to each other willingly and slowly grow together in the trivial daily life, allowing each other to have the confidence to "stop with peace of mind" and ultimately live a more complete version of themselves.