A middle-aged man, Jin Chengqin, lost his job due to the bankruptcy of his company. He was in debt, and his wife left him. Desperate for his life, he jumped off the Han River Bridge... However, when Mr. Jin woke up, he found himself drifting to a small island in the heart of the Han River. From the island, you can see the landmark buildings of Seoul, the 63 Building and the National Assembly Building, but it is deserted and independent. Depressed at first, Mr. King wanted to jump off the 63 Building again, so he tried every means to escape from the island, but all failed. Later, he wanted to hang himself with a tie, but because he ate the sweet sage flowers, the sweetness made him cry bitterly and decided to live temporarily.
At the same time, in a high-rise building in the city, there lives a senior otaku who is prone to autism, Kim Jong-yeon. She was pale, wearing a dirty T-shirt and sneakers, and there was a mountain of rubbish in the room. She hasn't been out of her room for three years, and only communicates with her parents through text messages on her mobile phone. She slept at night in a closet covered with plastic bubble wrap, treating herself as a fragile item. Her daily job is to use other people's photos to play various roles on the Internet, post some fake life experiences, and then wait to see comments from netizens.
One of her biggest hobbies is photographing the moon with a camera with a telephoto lens. For three years, she has almost never opened the curtains during the day, with only two exceptions - one day in the spring and autumn of each year, Seoul will hold an air defense exercise, and the city will become quiet and empty for 20 minutes. The air defense exercise in the spring arrived as scheduled. She wore a helmet and began to take pictures, but by accident she saw Mr. Jin who was about to hang himself on the island. She thought he was an alien, so she began to observe and record his life every day.
Mr. Jin slowly got used to the life on the island. He picked up rubbish for daily necessities, and even found a duck boat as a shelter. From the initial clumsy, to later he can successfully catch fish and birds, as well as steal bird eggs. One day he picked up a bag of miscellaneous sauce noodles. He regretted that he had never eaten miscellaneous sauce noodles and could not make noodles with the current conditions. He had a flash of inspiration and felt that the bird droppings might contain plant seeds, so he opened up a field and planted the bird droppings. He also made a canned scarecrow, talked to it every day, and changed the word "HELP" on the beach to "HELLO".
After observing Mr. Jin for two months, Miss Jin decided to respond to his message on behalf of the 6 billion people on earth. In the dead of night, she entered a street full of danger to her, stuffed a note with a message into a wine bottle, and threw it over the Han River Bridge. After more than a month, Mr. Jin finally found the red wine bottle. No one except Miss Jin found him, and they became strange pen pals in this special way. Seeing that he wanted to eat miscellaneous sauce noodles so much, she called and ordered takeout for him. After the courier brother drove the duck boat to deliver the miscellaneous sauce noodles, he asked him to send them back, because the miscellaneous sauce noodles were his hope. She happily ate the miso noodles and spoke to her mother for the first time in three years, hoping to get some corn seeds. His corn was finally ripe, and he made himself a bowl of miscellaneous sauce noodles, which he ate while crying. And her corn has sprouted, and things seem to be going in the right direction.
But one day, he wrote "WHO ARE YOU" on the beach. She printed a photo of someone else online and put it in a bottle, but eventually gave up and threw it down. Mr. Jin, who did not find the bottle, was very anxious, and at this time, Miss Jin was also facing a huge crisis - her identity was exposed, and many netizens scolded her, so she had to hide in the cabinet again. A storm hit that night and everything was destroyed for Mr. King. The next day, the police visited the island. It turned out that the island is an ecological reserve and is not open to the public. Mr. Jin didn't want to leave here because he was still waiting for her reply, but the police couldn't help but threw him ashore.
Miss Jin, who witnessed everything from the camera, rushed out of the room without any arms for the first time, ignoring the eyes of passers-by, and plunged into the bright autumn sun. But the bus carrying him left. Just as she was crying, the air-raid alarm went off—she had another 20 minutes. So she finally caught up with the bus and solemnly said her name to him. When the car started, she was unsteady, and he took her hand in time. It also seems to mean that they become each other's driftwood, no matter where they drift, they will no longer be alone.
In a metropolis with steel and iron bones, high-rise buildings are lined up, living space is constantly being squeezed, people are smarter, but therefore more lonely. We drag our exhausted souls and wander in the noisy and noisy city, longing for someone who can tune in with us and hear our lonely hearts. But perhaps as Haruki Murakami said: "People always have to enter their own world, and the deepest place will have a sense of connection. Connect with others everywhere.” Please believe that when thousands of sails are over, there will always be trees full of flowers, and every Ultraman will eventually meet his own little monster; and when you are alone, the world will also give you a similar.
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