Desire 2022

In London in 1952, William, who had been a civil servant for many years, had become a screw in the bureaucracy of post-war British reconstruction. Endless paperwork piled up on his desk. At this time, the tired man learned that he was terminally ill and began to want to find some meaning for his gray and monotonous life before he died. He tried indulgence, neglected his family and work, etc. Later, William was attracted to Margaret, a young female colleague in the same office. She herself seemed to represent life and vitality, and things passing by in William's life. The friendship between the two gradually deepens, and she inadvertently shows him how to face human mortality, how to accumulate her own life experience and dedicate her last full effort to overcome all difficulties to promote a long-delayed project to help children in poor areas of London.