All the world’s regrets are sealed behind seventeen doors.
Wangsheng carries the desolation within himself like a burden. Gambling his life, he enters a strange realm caught between life and death. He wanders through unfinished chapters of other people’s pasts, facing young lives crushed by hardship: malice surges like a tide, hope barely clings to life in desperate circumstances, and countless souls inch toward the abyss of fate.
He has no divine power to turn the tide, only a deep, hard-won empathy, and the role of a silent passerby in time. He reaches out to catch those on the verge of falling, but he is destined to be forgotten. Those he saves will erase all trace of him and move on to new lives of their own. Only he must carry everyone else’s suffering and glimmers of hope, walking forward alone.
Salvation has never been a one-sided act of charity. As he knocks on door after door, he keeps coming face-to-face with his own wounds. He set out to meet his death, but on his journey to save others, he begins to reconsider the weight of life and death.
A dim gray candle is still bright enough to light the way for the lost.
Seventeen encounters, seventeen partings. When all the copper nails have been gathered, he will finally understand: true release does not mean ending your life, but finding a reason to keep moving forward in a broken world.
Theme: May regret never become a stumbling block in anyone’s path
