Synopsis

This film tells the story of Mao Xiaodong and Mao Xiaoping, two brothers who leave their rural home to work in Guangxi and Guangdong respectively. Their working life is very boring and monotonous, and their only hope is to make money. Two threads intertwine, one about the older brother, Mao Xiaodong, who tells of his desperate situation of life, and the other about the younger brother Mao Xiaoping, who tells of his desperate situation of death. The elder brother leaves the countryside to work in the city to make hard-earned money in order to return home to marry and have children, his life journey already planned. He struggles to continue his boring mechanical work, to be in a position to continue the legacy of the next generation, and does everything he can to survive. The younger brother wants to flee from the broken and unbearable countryside that he cannot escape, not only contesting himself but also contesting the traditional constraints of the countryside, only to discover after escaping from the countryside to the city that he cannot escape his own abyss, from the shabby desolation that the countryside has created.