A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him to take on his responsibilities as the head of the family. When life's burdens hit hard, he must confront himself and start anew.
A feisty single mother, Wang Tiemei, moves to a new home with her child, Wang Moli,and befriends her neighbor, Xiao Ye, who is supposedly sober and in love with her brain. Two women with very different personalities, one strong, one soft, one good at mothering people, one good at lying at all times. Faced with old traumas and new challenges, they warm and comfort each other. As for the two men surrounding Wang Tiemei, her ex-husband makes trouble from time to time, and her daughter's drummer teacher seems to be full of new possibilities. As women who have awakened and men who have learned about gender issues, what new problems will they encounter? How will they see themselves and the world?
Second chapter of Shanshui Painting series from Gu, portrays a mother and her son living amid economic turbulence in the beautiful Chinese green tea-farming landscape.
