Island, Sunset, Coconut Trees

Three girls who grew up together lived three completely different lives in thirty years. He Wei, a stubborn and strong-willed small-town girl, bears the cold shoulder of her family for "having useless girls". She went from an island boarding school to the capital city, but fell into depression under the double squeeze of the workplace and her original family. Her lover Lin Shi pulled her back from the abyss, and she finally had the courage to give up her obsession with "getting ahead", returned to the island, and opened her first small theater. Wu You, a gentle and forbearing only daughter, was forced to stay in her hometown because her father gambled and her mother ran away. She buried all her ideals in psychology, and while enduring her parents' quarrels and demands, she taught students round after round in the small island classroom. Later, she opened a psychological consultation room and published a book, but she never got married - she said that she was fine alone. Chen Mo, the one who longs to be loved the most, was heartbroken by a scumbag in college and said he would never get married again. After graduation, he got married far away and became a full-time housewife. She raised two children alone in a foreign land, and her husband always came home late. She smiled and said to her best friend on the other end of the phone, "I am very happy, although I am very tired." Until her husband lost his job, she took her family back to the island and opened a small restaurant. Thirty years later, at another sunset, three women in their forties were sitting in a food stall on the beach again. They drank beer and watched the coconut trees swaying in the evening breeze. No one lived the way they imagined when they were young, but no one regretted it.