Synopsis
The hot summer city night makes people anxious. Lost in this cement city, he wanders like a ghost, suspended in the summer air, unaware where to go.
Chen Guo, after breaking up with his girlfriend, puts aside his dream of becoming an underwear designer, and starts to pass out leaflets to make a living. Occasionally he encounters a girl named Lulu, a KTV waitress who looks so similar to his ex-girlfriend. So he begins to pay attention to Lulu.
Lu Jingyi, a vegetative patient’s wife, is Lulu’s neighbor. The sound of having sex from the next door makes Jingyi feel so lonely.
Lulu is a girl longing for love. She tries to end her own life out of desperation, but gets saved by Chen Guo. When Lu Jingyi meets Chen Guo at Lulu’s doorstep, she begins to pay attention to this man who often goes to her grocery store to buy instant noodles.
The big city seems unable to hold their swaying hearts. In the hot summer days, no one knows where they are heading to.
Wang Zhi
Wang Zhi, male, born in Yunnan in 1992, Young director, Editor. Graduated from the Northwest University for Nationalities in 2010, major in digital media art, college self-directed creation of the Inn, Angel Story and other experimental short films. After graduation, he participated in the editing work of many film and television dramas. In 2016, the film IN SILENCE was completed in three years. In 2019, the documentary UP OR DOWN was filmed and is currently being produced.
Director's statement
We are born lonely, especially in such a cosmopolitan city as Beijing. Countless buildings rise up every day, yet those of us who wander outside couldn’t find a sense of belonging. People pass by every day, and we don’t have any communication. We have all become the furnishing in each other’s world. Relentless, indifferent, lonely, restless, this is the steel city with rapid development.
When I was alone in the living room, lying on the sofa and naked, looking around the tall buildings, the high-intensity light contrast between indoor and outdoor, the green color on the ceiling, the endless voice of cicadas, in this empty room, I did not know where I was from and where to go, only endless loneliness accompanied me. As the Spanish poet Luis Rosales wrote, “Lonely life, completely lonely”. Nothing has changed. We are inside of the city, but we are outside of the world.
