Maria was nineteen years old. She was deceived by a friend and became seriously ill. Her parents kicked her out of the house. She sat at the subway entrance in a foreign country, thinking she had arrived at the station. A man knelt down and put a piece of paper into her palm - that was the first time that someone stopped within enough distance to touch her when she was at her dirtiest.
Yang Shouyi, a Chinese genetic scientist. An injection cleared the virus from her body, but it led to a cross-border pursuit for herself. Capital wants to lock up his technology, and someone wants to erase his existence.
He went from being a rescuer to being a fugitive. She went from being the one who was rescued to being the one holding the last position for him. The position was chosen in Chengdu. One person is pregnant, one person is giving birth, and one person is looking up the dictionary and reading every prenatal check-up sheet.
She later flew back to New York to retrieve a hard drive from a dying friend. Plugging in the computer, she saw something she shouldn't have seen - she had seen all those faces in the news. Then someone started knocking on the door, late at night, more than one person.
Li Mingyue waited for Yang Shouyi for twelve years. She used her capital to clear the way for him, used her body to see him off, and then let him go. Lin Xue didn't speak or step back. She was the nameless wall on the way to escape.
This is a story about "catch". Under the killing line, someone squats down, someone reaches out, and someone helps you learn to breathe again.
Intention: The height of civilization lies in how it treats people who are judged to be "unworthy".