Give Them Back to the World

Lin Zhou is just an ordinary person guarding the repair shop on the street corner. He would repair broken screens, broken wires, and burned out power supplies, but he never thought that one day the person he would repair would be a person erased from the entire world. That night, there was a pair of dishes and chopsticks missing from the dinner table. The mother said that she had never given birth to a daughter. Her relatives could not understand who "Lin Xiaoman" was. The school could not find her name. Even in the group photos and mobile phone contacts, there was no trace of her existence. Everyone believed that Lin Zhou was an only child. Only he still remembered that his sister was urging him to repair the old mobile phone before going out yesterday. When Lin Zhou found his phone from the repair shop, an unsent message lit up on the damaged screen: "Brother, if they say you are an only child tomorrow, don't believe it." In order to find his sister, Lin Zhou began to repair the old things that she had actually used. Broken mobile phones, worn door frames, and rewritten lists reveal the unexplained past during repeated repairs and verifications. He heard his sister's voice and gradually discovered that Lin Xiaoman was not the only one who was forgotten. Beneath the surface of city life going on as usual, many people, streets and lives are being quietly erased. Initially, Lin Zhou just wanted to take his sister home. Later, he must answer a more difficult question: When a person loses his name, records, and everyone who knows him, who can prove that he has lived, and how can he regain a tomorrow? As long as there is one person who refuses to forget, the way home should not disappear completely.