Han Xiao, an ancient building restorer, has a secret: the faded surveying rope on his left wrist is tied to the Ye family's daughter for sixteen years.
Documentary director Ye Xuan has an obsession: every inch of the mottled cornices in the camera lens hides her mother's last smile before she disappeared.
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On the night of the reunion at the Shanghai Film Festival, an architectural Easter egg designed by him appeared at the end of her film "Eaves Record";
At the surveying and mapping site of the old house in Suzhou, his hand protecting her camera overlapped with the palm prints injured on a rainstorm night when he was a teenager.
He said that the renovation of the old city was the pain of the times, but she pointed the camera at the miniature ancient bridge he repaired late at night:
"Han Xiao, are you demolishing the building, or are you sincere because you dare not admit it?"
When the yellowed marriage certificate was revealed under the collapsed rubble of the ancient stage, the jade pendant of Zhou Shenxing, the marriage partner, was paired with his mother's belongings——
Hidden in the seventy-two processes of restoring ancient buildings is the code to heal each other's childhood.
Purpose: To protect the warmth of humanity in the process of urbanization, to achieve intergenerational trauma healing through the restoration of ancient buildings, and to demonstrate the persistence of traditional cultural inheritors and the innovative collision of new generation cultural workers.