Zheng Haosen

A worker from Northeast China is obsessed with his dream of flying his self-made flying-device.

Liu Hong once worked at a film studio, but now he is idle at home. One by one, his old neighbors moved away; the former workplace is to be demolished and rebuilt into a business district; his close friend passed away unexpectedly. All these things have plunged him into life’s troubles. Just as he and his wife decided to move out of their old residence, his wife got injured accidentally — this incident changed him and reignited his motivation for life.

An aftershock caused by an earthquake twelve years ago made a time-space connection between the young Xiao Li and his childhood. At a class reunion many years later, Xiao Li met Song Qian, a girl who had a crush on him. The secret of his father's disappearance and the memory of an accident caused by a game of hide-and-seek were gradually evoked. In the flowing river, Xiao Li gradually approached the truth in his heart and resisted the oblivion from the present.

A commercial short film co-presented by FIRST Film Festival and Vivo, revolves around the protagonist Zhuang Shu in director's previous TV mini-series "Why Try to Change Me Now", focusing on the northwestern small city of Qingcheng in the 1990s, telling the story of the unexpected encounter between two pairs of fathers and sons on the Spring Festival. This brief reunion made the children grow up a little. "Whether facing family responsibilities or facing the challenges of life, we are still led by the universal desire of 'dreaming'. Dreams are the instinct of existence and also guide us to our truest self." Director Zhang Dalei explained the meaning of the title.