This film tells the story of an old man in an old industrial city in Northeast China during the seven days before the start of winter fishing. A few years after her husband's death, 82-year-old Zhao Lihua suffered from mild depression. She tried to take a dip in the employee bathhouse, but was turned away and humiliated several times. His son Zhu Hongbing struggled to find two women to accompany his mother in the bath. A seemingly simple daily life turned out to be extremely difficult for the mother and son. In the end, my mother never realized her wish to take a bath in the employee bathhouse, even though she had worked in this factory all her life. For Zhao Lihua, "taking a bath" is a form of self-cleansing like baptism, and leaving with dignity and "peace" is her last choice...
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