The Third Button from an Old Photo Album

In 1987, Lin Xiaoman, a girl from a tailor shop, and Chen Aming, an apprentice in a photography studio, intersected in Tongzilou due to the mysterious disappearance of an old man living alone, Uncle Zhou. The old photo album from 1963 and plum blossom buttons engraved with red stars left at the scene revealed Uncle Zhou's unknown past. When Lin Xiaoman discovered that the button style matched his mother's old clothes, this summer, full of the smell of soot and the chirping of cicadas, was suddenly involved in a secret that spanned twenty years.