SYNOPSIS

Seventeen-year-old Xiaokui has spent her entire life in a small seaside town. A top student with a quiet passion for girl idol groups, she is well known throughout the neighborhood — as is her closest friend, Qiangwei, a brilliant math prodigy who recently transferred back from the city. At seventeen, Xiaokui’s world is one without romance, without a cellphone — just geography magazines and a giant television screen. In the stillness of her routine life, an unexpected “aurora” quietly descends upon her sleepy coastal town. Surrounded by the monotony of familiar faces, endless exam prep, and a sea that stretches farther than their futures seem to go, Xiaokui and Rose begin to wonder: Can the answers to life be found in the back of a math textbook? Sitting together on the deck of a broken-down fishing boat, they share a dream: “If we could fix this boat, maybe we could finally leave this place.”

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Xuling Wang

• Production

  Peijun Lin

• Referent

  Dongni Cai

• Sales

  Dongni Cai