Next to the abandoned mine, old miner Li Shoutian used 134 cigarette butts to measure the days until his daughter Xiao Min left the northern coal city. When a brass key from his new home in the south was handed to his hand with an indescribable warmth, his withered life experienced the most violent shock. Saying goodbye to the tough homeland soaked in blood, sweat and soot, and stepping on the green train heading south, what hit us was the sticky and humid air, and the strange feeling of mold in the bones. However, his daughter's hot embrace and raging tears on the platform hit him harder than the dampness and coldness in the south. From the "wellhead" to the "south", this is a forced migration, a difficult separation from the hard past, and a clumsy and curious exploration of a strange future in the daughter's persistent love. The future was as blurry as the rain and fog in the south, but the needed warmth was slowly thawing his heart that had been frozen for half his life.
Purpose: Reshaping belonging in the cracks of the times