Striving to Cross

Genius Director × Spirited Writer

He is my soulmate in emails, and the shore where I hoped to dock after crossing the river.

This is the story of a client who gets spectacularly "scammed," falls into a tailor-made honey trap, and willingly hands over his heart.

Fang Shiye, Best New Director at the Berlin International Film Festival, returns home only to be besieged.

Yan Shu, a bestselling author hiding behind a secret identity, never shows his face and never explains himself.

In the rain of Xianglan Town, Fang Shiye happens to meet Yan Shu, a man as gentle as jade. Yet the two are forced into becoming pen pals.

Yan Shu can drink tea, and he can also race motorcycles along mountain roads.

They first meet in April, and by July they're in Beijing. Fang Shiye always thinks Yan Shu keeps things from him because he doesn't trust him. But Yan Shu gives him his first collaboration, his first love, and his first surrender of both body and soul.

"Yan Shu, can I..."

Yan Shu says, "You can."

Theme: Truth and falsehood blur together; what is real may be false, and what is nothing may be everything.