Seven minutes after Zhou Qingyue was laid off in Silicon Valley, Gu Yao was telling 1,800 people about her success in Shanghai.
To be precise, it was the success of Gu Yao's three college roommates.
Ten years ago, they had agreed to go to a distant place together. Later, three people left and one person stayed.
Ten years later, Gu Yao told their overseas life into a story about choice, courage and success. In telling it again and again, Gu Yao became the one closest to "success" among the four.
They were once envied by countless people.
But few people have asked - what happens after you stay?
Silicon Valley has no shortage of great resumes, decent jobs, and glamorous lives.
But real life is never about resumes, nor does it stop at being glamorous in front of others.
Until a documentary made the camera focus on them again.
Director Shen Fang asked Gu Yao: "Do you want to film the ten years that really happened, or the version you have told for ten years?"
Gu Yao didn't answer.
The stories that had been told for too long were no longer what she thought they were.
Ten years ago, she walked them into the airport and stayed alone outside the security line.
Ten years later, she finally bought her belated fourth ticket and flew to San Francisco.
She thought she was finally going to that distant place she had missed for ten years.
It's just that there is never just one answer in the distance.
Some distant places are meant to be reached.
Some distant places are used to say goodbye.
Intention: The distance is not the only way out, and there is no standard answer to success; see your true self and each other, and grow together in equal love.