"Spring in the Ice Shell"
When his father died young, Lin Xiaoman's world was filled with ice.
Her mother, Zhou Shulan, was plagued by depression, with frost between her brows and eyes, locking her childhood in a silent coldness. She learned to wrap herself in a thicker "ice shell". Mother and daughter were like two pieces of mutually exclusive ice. After decades of alienation and trauma, neither one knew how to say "I hurt."
At the age of thirty-two, her mother suddenly became seriously ill, breaking the deadlock that had lasted half her life.
The apology before the hospital bed, the diary left by her father, and the fragmentary memories of her neighbors pieced together a truth that shocked her - her mother's indifference has always been a protective shell hiding wounds.
She began to approach awkwardly: she learned the old taste of her mother's favorite food, walked slowly with her under the sunset, and walked into the psychological consultation room to open her scars.
It turns out that the coldest ice can be melted by belated understanding; the farthest distance is not worth the words "I understand you".
This is a story about reconciliation and self-salvation between mother and daughter. When the pain of two generations is seen, the frozen love will finally usher in a belated spring.
Concept: "Spring" symbolizes the hope of breaking out of the cocoon and being reborn, which is suitable for telling an epic of female growth across generations.