My Good-For-Nothing Father

9-Year-old Lin Xiaoxing's childhood was dominated by the alcoholism of his father, Lao Lin - he always woke up to the sound of drunken snoring. Faced with the cold leftover porridge and his father's perfunctory promises, the absence of parent-child activities and the teasing of his classmates, he was filled with longing and disappointment for a "qualified father". 38-Year-old Lin Jianjun has become what he once disliked the most: with family members, family responsibilities, mortgage and car loan pressures, and work bottlenecks, he can only rely on alcohol to numb his anxiety. However, in his son's disappointed diary and late-night hangover, he vaguely saw the shadow of his father back then. The perspectives of childhood and adulthood are intertwined, from the empty wine bottles in the old residence to the white wine glasses on the balcony, from the lonely figure in parent-child activities to the involuntary social activities in the workplace, from the dismissal notice from the factory to the news of layoffs in the company, Lin Jianjun steps through his own survival dilemma. Bu understood his father's helplessness back then: the pressure of being raised by a single parent and the bitterness of living at the bottom made the alcoholic father who "fished for three days and dried nets for two days" use alcohol to escape, but he kept his son's paintings in his pocket and sweated profusely at the construction site just to support his family. Thirty years later, when Lin Jianjun whispered "I understand you" to his father's old photos, when he gave up socializing to spend time with his children and chose to persevere when alcohol addiction struck, this belated understanding finally transcended time and space. This is not a story about a perfect father, but it is about the inheritance of father's love, responsibility and redemption between two generations of men under the heavy pressure of life. It turns out that father's love has never been absent, but it only takes time to understand the deep affection and responsibility hidden behind the alcohol and silence.