Before Forgetting Begins

A stopped old pocket watch hides a watch that spans sixty years. When Su Nian'an, an urban white-collar worker, was wiping his grandmother's relics in front of the hospital bed, the clockwork suddenly turned, and faded writing appeared on the inside of the watch cover - 'For Xiao Man in 1949'. Following this clue, the picture of the protection of three generations of women in the torrent of the times slowly unfolds: the young widowed mother who protected her infant child during the war, the peasant woman who saved rations to feed her adopted daughter during the famine years, and the old man who passed away with a smile holding the admission notice of his grandchild in the new century. When Nian An found three large boxes of unopened children's sweaters in the attic of her ancestral home, each with a different year embroidered on the collar, she realized that this silent love had begun to be knitted long before life was born. "