International student Ling Chen always believes that music can transcend language, national boundaries and prejudices, allowing different people to understand each other. However, when ideals and reality collided fiercely, and when love, friendship and youth gradually faded in the torrent of time, he found that he was losing step by step the once vivid and passionate self.
From the streets and churches in southern Germany to the noisy campuses and pubs; from high-spirited idealists to young people crying in front of tombstones; from never-sent letters to belated confessions - questions about love, freedom, art and faith have always lingered in everyone's life.
In this era where the truth always comes late and values are constantly being torn apart, "The Lost Pearl" attempts to tell the story of the growth and confusion of a group of young people: they once loved passionately and believed stubbornly; they were misunderstood, forgotten, and coerced by the times, but they still desire to respond to the world with their own voices.
This is an elegy dedicated to youth and a long letter to idealists. When the colorful streets come into view again, and when the lost lover turns into the glimmer of memory, people will eventually understand that some treasures have never really lost their light even though they have been lost to time.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
The world likes to be confused, but I let them stay drunk forever
Purpose: In an era when ideals are constantly being shattered, still choose to love the world