Mountain City, Sea’s End

In the 1990s, hoping to build a new home, Kang Jiamin headed south to Guangdong for work not long after his wedding. Life on the construction site was harsh, with the specter of shoddy workmanship, the hardship of unpaid wages, and the ache of being separated from his family all intertwined. Back in their hometown, his wife, Lin Shangxian, struggled with conflicts among her sisters-in-law and the burden of raising their child. Under mounting financial pressure, she eventually took their daughter and followed him to Guangdong. When the whole family reunited at Cape Tower, a place that symbolized the start of their dream, the construction company run by Kang Jiahong, Kang Jiamin’s eldest son, seemed to be flourishing, but beneath the surface it was beset by danger. At the turn of the millennium, long-overdue wages and frayed nerves came to a head just before the New Year. A chaotic confrontation turned deadly... Promises are as shifting as sand, and fate as powerful as the tide. Can the Kang family hold on to a harbor in a foreign land amid the surging waves of the times...