Return Journey: 28 Days

A cold announcement from deep space starts a twenty-eight-day countdown for human civilization. It's not an asteroid, but a "dark visitor" from the interstellar abyss. With the help of Jupiter's gravity, it shoots towards the earth like a bullet. It has not yet arrived, and its powerful magnetic field has taken the lead in strangling human technological nerves, plunging the world into darkness and chaos. Lu Yan, a former emergency management expert, is a builder of order and an emotional aphasic. He and his lover Shen Mian fell into silence due to the distance between them. The only connection was the pot of epiphyllum that she carefully cared for and was about to bloom, and an unfinished agreement. When planes crashed, railways collapsed, and all modern transportation turned into scrap metal, he launched the craziest project in his life - walking across 1,400 kilometers from Fuzhou back to Zunyi. This is not a race for survival but a funeral race against time. His goal is not to survive, but to get home. For twenty-eight days, he walked from the collapsed city to the bloody countryside, witnessing how civilization breeds the last scene of humanity on its corpse: the carnival of power, the tragedy of knowledge, and the perseverance of the ordinary. What supports him is not the survival instinct, but the route planned rationally by an engineer, and the almost paranoid fulfillment of the word "go home" by a man. At the moment before the sky was completely swallowed up by the huge star, could he push open the door and see the epiphyllum blooming silently for him at the end of the world? When the entire universe is about to extinguish you, how can you prove that you have ever lived? The answer may be: towards you.