Shanghai eco-photographer Chen Qiushi, burdened with the memory of witnessing his father drowning as a child, knocked over the herbarium of endangered plants collected by a botany graduate student during the weekend in Lijiang. One uses a camera to record natural death, and the other uses specimens to solidify the pulse of life. Two souls burned by the trauma of their original families test each other in the ancient city's intertwined rain lanes and snow-capped mountains.
When Chen Qiushi discovered the antidepressants hidden in the specimen book on weekends, and when Chen Qiushi broke into the late-night phone call with his ex-girlfriend on weekends, trust was like a broken glass cup. At the moment of life and death when they were trapped in the glowworm cave on a rainy night, they were forced to face the darkest memory: the bars of the mental hospital overlapped with the plaid shirt of their drowned father in the fluorescent light.
Half a year later, at the Shanghai Photography Exhibition, Chen Qiu used 365 plant pictures to pave the road to redemption. On the weekend, he took his recovering mother to crush the gears of time made of ginkgo leaves. They finally understood that those broken specimens, shaking medicine bottles and photos with their backs to the camera forever were the most primitive totems of love.
Concept: depression, family of origin, self-salvation, etc.