A heartfelt video letter across continents, connecting a grandfather in China with a stroke patient in the UK. Through the filmmaker’s deep bond with them both, the film captures a quiet resilience and enduring love that bring hope to families touched by stroke.

"If I had never left, what would my life trajectory have been like" It took a month to capture images of life at different ages in Liuzhou, edited out with life development trajectories. From being a playful child, to studying, to military training, to gradually growing up to be an adult earning a living, to becoming old and sick, and finally becoming the person who is missed at the Midwinter Festival. The summer is over, life is over, but it is not yet saved. Death is not a relief; it is the plain acceptance of the process of life that is a relief. The film also inserts home videos from my childhood to show the connection between life and home that is my own. Perhaps the film also evokes part of the collective memory.

Images capture everything beautifully. Back then, I had no idea that every night after 2021 would be filled with fear. Since something happened to the elderly in the family in 2021, the frequency of my nightmares has greatly increased. Dreams that are too beautiful are also nightmares because waking up makes me realize it was just a dream. Dreams that are too terrifying are, of course, nightmares. Since then, the frequency of dreams about life and death has greatly increased, and I fear every day that these nightmares might come true. I am afraid that after sleeping, I will wake up to bad news or messages from the family. Yet, whenever people ask me how the past three years have been, I always feel like they were not bad. Perhaps it's because these three years have been somewhat muddled. I can be extremely happy, or extremely sad. When averaged out, it's just ordinary, not too bad. But today, sitting in a comfortable room, having just checked the new packages that arrived, with my cat sleeping in the living room, I leisurely started sorting through old materials. Seeing the winter of 2021, when the whole family was eating together at home, I was deeply affected. The immense power of these memories overwhelmed me in an instant. Grandpa and Grandpa (mother's side) could still sit and eat happily together. The family was not busy and hurried, shuttling back and forth between home and the hospital. I feel that insisting on coming to study this year to escape this pain left all the pressure, pain, and trauma to my family. I wanted to come to the UK to embrace a new life. It was truly irresponsible behavior. But I had no choice. I really needed to wake up in a new place to start a new chapter. This film uses different aspect ratios to represent: reality, the first layer of the dream, and the second layer of the dream. Feel it, don't think about it.