Five Years and Seven Months

When midsummer is frozen by a medical diagnosis, maternal love becomes the only compass through life, death and separation. Lin Wei's life was originally ordinary and stable. Her husband Chen Hao worked hard to support the family. Her five-year-old son Yangyang was the brightest sunshine in her life. However, one hot summer day, a diagnosis of "invasive ductal carcinoma (mid-term)" was like the coldest frost, freezing all her happiness in an instant. The high cost of treatment was like a bottomless abyss, quickly draining the small family of their meager savings and all their hopes. Faced with the desperate reality and the oppression of huge debts, her husband Chen Hao made a cruel but "realistic" choice: divorce and take Yangyang away. The reason was cold and bone-chilling - he couldn't afford the treatment and couldn't let his son fall into the abyss with his mother. In order not to drag down her favorite child, Lin Wei, heartbroken, signed the divorce agreement in tears. Five-year-old Yang Yang was forcibly taken away by his father while he was confused and crying, leaving only an empty "home" echoing with children's laughter. After losing her child, suffering from illness, and unable to provide a warm haven for her family, Lin Wei fell into the darkest abyss of her life. The pain of chemotherapy, physical weakness, and boundless loneliness tortured her day and night. The only belief that supports her survival is Yang Yang. She learned that her son was financially well-off with his father, but he never stopped looking for his mother. The drawing paper in the kindergarten was covered with "missing notices", and what came over the phone was the child's heartbreaking cry: "Mom, where have you been? Dad said you don't want us anymore, I don't believe it!" Every time she heard her son's voice, Lin Wei was heartbroken, but it was also like a shot in the arm, injecting her almost exhausted will to survive. For the sake of the child who was crying for his mother, Lin Wei showed amazing tenacity in a desperate situation. She endured the tremendous pain of treatment, struggled to work between illnesses, and accumulated capital for survival and future minute by minute. The immune storm of the disease almost defeated her, but the auditory hallucination of Yangyang calling "mother" became the rope of life that pulled her back from the edge of death. After going through the test of life and death, Lin Wei finally ushered in the dawn of clinical remission. The body recovers slowly in rehabilitation, and life is rebuilt with difficulty from the ruins. When she learned that Yangyang was depressed because she missed her mother, the longing deep in her heart could no longer be suppressed: she wanted to live a healthy life, and she wanted to give her son a real home! A battle to regain his flesh and blood quietly began - a difficult negotiation with Chen Hao, a tearful statement in court about his journey of overcoming the disease and his unforgettable longing for his son, showing evidence that Yangyang was deeply psychologically affected. When the law finally returned Yangyang's custody rights to the mother who was reborn from the ashes, Lin Wei tremblingly arranged the new home for their mother and son. At the appointed place, time seemed to freeze. The little figure who was only five years old when he left is now five years and seven months old. After a brief hesitation, Yangyang recognized his mother. He had accumulated seven months of longing, grievances and love, and burst out in an earth-shattering cry: "Mom! Mom! Where have you been? I've been looking for you for a long, long time!" Like a chick returning from the nest, he threw himself into Lin Wei's arms with all his strength and hugged her neck tightly, as if he wanted to embed himself back into his mother's life. At that moment, all the pain, separation, and despair were redeemed in the lost and found embrace. "Five Years and Seven Months" tells not only a mother's tragic battle with cancer, but also a story about how the deepest love can create miracles in desperate circumstances. It depicts the struggle and choices of human nature under the weight of poverty and disease, and shows the indestructibility of maternal love, as well as the courage and strength to rely on one's own strength to piece together new life after being broken. This is a story about loss, waiting, searching, and finally embracing each other tightly in tears, letting love become the sun that never sets in life. Intent: The tenacity of maternal love