Rusty Second Hand

"Rusty Second Hand" unfolds from the perspective of watch repairman Chen Mo, connecting the emotional entanglements and self-salvation of two generations. The sudden departure of his wife Su Qing brought Chen Mo's life to a standstill. In the empty home, Su Qing's empty chair and the teacup with lip prints became silent thoughts. An old letter written to her mother Lin Wan twenty years late, and a rusty gear that reappeared unexpectedly revealed the dusty past of her parents' marriage - her father Chen Weiguo built a cage with silence and order, her mother struggled with poetry and depression, and the appearance of Gu Yuanshan became the glimmer of her spirit. In the process of tracing the truth, Chen Mo kept seeing reincarnation in his parents' stories and his own marriage: he inherited his father's silence and used the sophisticated world of clocks to isolate Su Qing's voice. From his mother's poems and diaries, to the half-photos left by Su Qing, and the "Echo" series of images on the hard drive, Chen Mo gradually understood the loneliness and longing of two generations of women. In the end, in the process of dismantling the old clock and facing the past, he understood that love is not about control and order, but listening and acceptance. The rusty second hand finally turned again in self-awakening.