Spending Long Years with Anthony is a work based on the author's personal experience, which tells about his life and growth between the ages of 2 and 23. This period includes his study abroad in Melbourne, his love for food, and his experience of working in a restaurant. In the story, Anthony's yearning for KINOMOTO SAKURA and his emotional entanglements with Xiaoxuan form the main emotional thread. Through Anthony's life fragments, the film shows the loneliness, growth and perception of life of an ordinary person in a foreign country. Anthony in the film is a taciturn boy. After graduation, he said goodbye to his family and friends and went to Melbourne to study. There, he met his landlady and a group of roommates, whose enthusiasm sometimes made him forget that he was in a foreign country. Anthony's yearning for KINOMOTO SAKURA and his emotional development for Xiaoxuan constitute the emotional clues of the story. In the end, Anthony realized that KINOMOTO SAKURA only regarded him as a friend, and his feelings for Xiaoxuan failed to develop into love. The film ends with Anthony returning to Melbourne, sitting on the bus and recalling the past, and finally stopping in front of a restaurant named Alice, who seems to have found a new direction in life.