The Land Where Clouds Rest

Shen Zhiyi ran away. She fled the city's glass towers for the signal-less mountains of Yunqi Village. All she wanted was a good night's sleep, but she ran into a homecoming architect fighting to the death to protect the ancestral hall. Somehow, she opened a guesthouse, then somehow took in five people who were just as “not quite normal.” An advertising executive with hollowed-out syndrome, a nurse who can no longer bring herself to hold a needle, a Northeastern Chinese chef left behind by the times, a Miao embroidery girl who has lost herself, and an old professor who has waited ten years for his late wife. Seven people, one rundown guesthouse, and a village growing old. They thought they would lie flat, but eventually realized that healing isn't about waiting for the wind to come. It's about bending down and planting a forest that can summon the wind. The wind comes from far away, then blows on toward somewhere farther still. But this place will always be home.