Wang Liyu

In the late 1970s, eighteen farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, risked their heads to press the red handprints of their land contract responsibility agreements. This move shocked the whole country and thus opened the curtain on China's reform and opening up. Nearly three decades have passed in the blink of an eye. From Xiaogang Village to all parts of the country, there have been earth-shaking changes

The Shuangpailou Hutong, with a history of several decades, has witnessed the daily life, birth, aging, illness and death of generations. Time seems to have frozen here, thick and slow. On this day, the news of the house renovation was like a bomb that shattered the tranquility of Shuangpailou Hutong. People cheered and spread the news to each other, eagerly awaiting the arrival of a new life

Ah Xi (played by Ren Zhong), in his early twenties, has only the intelligence of a nine-year-old. He is slightly mentally handicapped. But his mother (played by Michelle Reis) told him, "Everyone is born to walk a path, a very long path of life. I think if we walk for a long time, people will surely be very tired. If we could hold hands and walk together,