August

In a small western town in the early 1990s, Zhang Xiaolei (played by Kong Weiyi), who had finished his primary school entrance examination, finally ushered in the long-awaited summer vacation without homework. However, this free and hot summer is not as prosperous as imagined, but more of an ordinary and repetitive family life and a lot of free time. It happened to be that year that the country began to implement the transformation of state-owned units. The iron rice bowl was broken. The unit of Zhang Xiaolei's father (played by Zhang Chen) was also affected by the reform. The life of every family in the family compound where they lived was affected by the reform. The children are bored all day long, but the adults, who seem calm, have hearts as hot as the scorching sun. Zhang Xiaolei just spent time quietly, feeling everything happening faintly around him. It wasn't until his father left with others to make a living, leaving only mother and son in the family, that Zhang Xiaolei truly felt that time had passed and life was different. On the night of the Beginning of Autumn, Zhang Xiaolei's epiphyllum bloomed quietly in the yard, as if it meant something...