Small town, two men, one woman — and a regret that won't stay buried.
Qiu Shi, from a small town in Jiangnan, strives to overcome personal challenges and resolve a deep regret. As her fiancé Qingyun returns from afar, their relationship begins to shift. Meanwhile, her supportive senior brother Yincheng helps her in unexpected ways. Beneath the surface, both men hide emotions that complicate their connections with her.
Acting
Lu Xingchen's restrained devastation in silence.
Cinematography
Jiangnan mist and water as emotional architecture.
Direction
Yugang Li stages longing like a geography lesson.
Director
Yugang Li
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Yugang Li casts himself as Yincheng, turning the film into a meditation on artistic self-insertion as emotional confession.
The Jiangnan setting evokes classical Chinese 'scholar-beauty' romance traditions, but subverts them — here, no one gets the girl.
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