Caribbean Amber

Fifty-year-old Maidong has been released from prison for five years. He is stuck in ordinary life and looks back with regrets for half his life. When he was young, he was too timid to confess his love, so he kept Wang Xiaonuan as his white moonlight for the rest of his life, while she studied medicine and went overseas with his family. He stopped attending technical school and originally planned to stay with his girlfriend, but his desire to live a stable life was shattered by betrayal. In the trough, I met old classmates and became mutual confidants. Unexpectedly, my confidant actually came together with my biological brother, and a double loss weighed on my heart. In order to prove his extraordinary status, he hastily married a strong and capable woman, but unexpected changes occurred. Unwilling to drag his wife down, he left without saying goodbye and left his hometown, leaving the marriage to end with a missing person verdict. After wandering for half his life, he remained arrogant and never changed. He missed several opportunities to get help from women and ended up living together with a woman who was also a frustrated person. The birth of his daughter was supposed to be his destination for the rest of his life, but his lack of companionship led to the breakdown of his second marriage. Love collapsed one after another, and his obsession forced him to take risks, and he ended up in jail. Half a hundred years after he was released from prison, he went to Jinling to visit his daughter. An accident caused a car accident. When he opened his eyes, Bai Yueguang, who had been away for nearly thirty years, was suddenly there. Her eyebrows were still gentle and inquiring, but she no longer recognized him who had been weathered. Half a life passed, and several loves were just passers-by. The years in the state-owned factory, the wandering south, the fireworks shop, and the prison atonement. The waves of the times enveloped ordinary people all the way up and down. After being entangled in obsession for half his life, he reunited with his old love and suddenly realized that if ice is frozen water droplets, then amber is frozen time. This is a documentary of an ordinary person's half-life trapped in regret, love and choice.