Jinmen Old Movies: I Can Touch Time

In the summer of 1978, in the family home of the old machine tool factory in Hongqiao District, Jinmen, 58-year-old cultural relic restorer Chen Yan suddenly died and was reborn as himself who had just graduated from high school. In his previous life, he was unable to wash away the grievances of his father's "machine tool accident" and the regret of not being able to retain the precious machine tools in the old factory. Now he has a chance to make amends - he accidentally awakened the power of "object tracing", and he can see key scenes of the past three years by touching an object. With his special abilities, Chen Yan first uncovered the real culprit who destroyed the machine tools and helped his technician father keep his job. He also used modern mechanical knowledge to optimize factory parts, winning the respect of factory leaders. From the era of food stamps in the planned economy, to the emergence of self-employed businesses after the reform and opening up, and then to the reform of state-owned enterprises in the 1990s, he used his powers to sense market demand and open a hardware store, help his neighbors find lost tickets, and cooperated with Su Xiao, who can sense plants, to grow off-season vegetables. Finally, when the machine tool factory was restructured, he discovered the historical value of the old machine tools and established an industrial heritage protection center, which not only solved the employment of workers, but also preserved the industrial memory of a generation. The story is rooted in contemporary elements such as supply and marketing cooperatives, factory bathhouses, and open-air movies. In the intertwining of personal destiny and the tide of the times, it writes an old time in Tianjin about making up for regrets, seizing opportunities, and protecting culture.