As the New Year approaches and Grandpa's health condition worsens, Pingping returns to their small village in Heilongjiang with Baolai, hoping to bring the old man back to Hainan. The father and daughter, caught in the conflict of old and new beliefs, can’t reach an agreement. In the process of preparing to sell the father's house, Pingping quietly abandons the idea, while Grandpa gradually comes to understand his daughter’s perspective.
Director’s Comment: The accelerated urbanization in China has brought profound impacts in rural society, including population migration, emotional disconnection, and shifts in self-identity. I want to approach this phenomenon from the perspective of a family, with an elderly man so used to rural life that moving to a city would bring him a lot of pain and he stubbornly refuses to leave. I chose to tell this story from a child's perspective as children represent the future; they don’t know what their ancestors experienced, everything is new to them, yet it is all built upon history.
Fengkai Liu is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Literature at Beijing Film Academy.