Five Stages of Grief

Shen Yu's "winner in life" shell was completely shattered by her mother's death notice. What was left to her was not a rich inheritance, but a heavy slap in the face: a dilapidated old house, a bizarre will, and a mother she had never really known. In the yellowed diary, she read a woman's secret desire. On the old patched skirt, she felt the blade that stabbed her mother in adolescence. Behind the nagging of marriage, she heard the deep-rooted existential fear of a generation of women. From denial, anger, negotiation, depression to final acceptance, Shen Yu was forced to walk through this bumpy road. She will learn to change light bulbs in a leaky old house, re-recognize love and dreams in her mother's words, and grow her own roots on the scars between generations. This is not a story about "coming out of grief." This is a story about how grief can be turned into soil, allowing a woman to truly live a new life for herself. Dedicated to every one of you who has ever fallen in love with and killed your mother.