Pan Zhaode is a young rural man living along the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River
With warmth and hope, he devotes himself to work at a local distillery. From the fields to the factory, and now in front of a phone screen – his identity is quietly shifting. Balancing family and work is the greatest challenge of his life. Every day, he shuttles between the factory and home, while also making frequent trips to the psychiatric hospital and the general hospital. An aging father, a mother with dementia, a wife who has left, and two young daughters – this is the reality he must struggle to face. The cracks in one man's fate intertwine with the era's growing pains. How will an ordinary young man from a rural town confront his own limitations, and how will he adapt to the changes unfolding around him?