"For the truly poor, procreation is not a choice, it is a sentence."
Chen Jingqiu and Wang Guoqing, a couple struggling at the bottom, chose to stay awake on the night when the pregnancy test showed two lines. They killed their possible lives, as well as their rights as parents, in the cold winter of reality.
Next door, Zhou Guifen and Liu Dajun welcomed their son Liu Dong after the same ecstasy. They believe that "there is no need to worry about the growth of the seedlings", but they do not know that poverty is a hereditary disease and suffering is the only legacy.
For ten years, Chen Jingqiu's drawer had been locked with an undelivered baby clothes, and Wang Guoqing's account book was filled with "dare not". Liu Dajun's severed finger, Zhou Guifen's madness, and the savage hatred growing in the eyes of young Liu Dong are another account book of blood and tears.
Ten years later, a sharp knife pierced the peace of the two families, and all the suppressed torture exploded outside the ward: life or non-life, which path is the real hell on earth?
This is a cruel fable about poverty, responsibility and choice. When love and survival come into conflict, we may all be standing on the same cliff.
Purpose: To explore the difficult choices individuals make about fertility and responsibility under extreme survival pressure, as well as the equally heavy life trajectories guided by different choices.