Eating fried dough sticks, forgetting to pay, and then coming back to pay is returning. Returning, a piece of utopia in everyone's mind, literature and film and television works strongly exaggerate the grandeur and ceremony of returning, or desolation and sigh, with the heroic return of the king, the glory of returning home in splendor, the helplessness of leaving home and the quietness of returning to the roots.

However, no one can really return. Returning is like a stone thrown into the flowing river, but when the stone touches the river, the dizzy ripples have changed the appearance of the river before.

Time is like the continuous flow of the river. Those who come back and wait can't change the speed and direction of the river. The place that can't be reached is called the distance, and the place that can't be returned is called the hometown.

Return plot

In the early 1970s, Lu Yanzhi (Chen Daoming), who had been isolated from his family for many years, ran away on the way to a farm transfer because of his longing. However, it is not easy to realize the simple wish of reunion. Lu Yan's behavior has brought pressure to her grown-up daughter, and her daughter Lu Danjue, who dances ballet in the dance school, is afraid of being a cold bench from now on.

To this end, she tries her best to prevent her mother Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) from meeting Lu Yan. As a result, the couple are close at hand, but far apart, leaving a deep or shallow shadow in the hearts of the whole family.

A few years later, Lu Yan realized the policy and rehabilitated himself. During the long separation, he lived by missing. The most important support and persistence in his heart was his deep love for his wife Feng Wanyu and his longing for family reunion.

However, things change, and nature makes people. When Lu Yan came back hopefully, he found that everything had changed. What was before him was not the expected reality of life: his daughter Lu Danjue paid the price for her adolescent growth.

I can't face myself, and I can't forgive myself easily; What makes Lu Yan know more deeply is that it is difficult for relatives to meet each other, and Feng Wanyu, who is sick, no longer knows him. For many years, no one confided in him, and the hope of life collapsed, and he didn't know how to deal with it at the moment. Of course, Feng Wanyu loves Lu Yanzhi deeply.

This kind of love has not been worn away in the slightest even in difficult years, but has been deposited in the bottom of my heart, which has been transformed into many silent waits in the spring and autumn, and even painful sacrifices. She firmly believes.

Her husband Lu Yanzhi will come back one day. Although the husband and wife met again, Feng Wanyu didn't recognize her husband, but this doesn't mean that she forgot Lu Yanzhi. It's just that her memory of Lu Yanzhi stayed in the past, before separation, and in the good old days.