On that Afternoon

A group of young people born in or after 1995 from Hangzhou set out on a quest for a cherished item they lost in their childhood, a journey that unexpectedly changed their lives in the process.

Shi, a young game designer, embarks on a difficult journey across the city to look for his missing roommate Gao. Following a clue hidden in an online game, he unexpectedly meets YY, Gao's girlfriend. Bound by their shared search for answers, Shi and YY navigate both the real world and virtual game spaces, pursuing the truth while confronting the blurred boundaries between memory, reality, and digital worlds.

A muggy summer of 2009, reality and memory tangled together, water from the canal soaked everyone in those vanishing days.

In 2064, the human body no longer has secrets. The world record for the men’s 100-meter dash set by Jamaican athlete Powell more than fifty years ago remains unbroken. Twenty-three-year-old athlete Mara is preparing for the next Olympics until a gunshot shatters the highway order like a curse.

Ma Ke immerses himself in his graduate dissertation on Lucy, the Australopithecus known as “grandmother of mankind”. After his mother inadvertently brings him to a remote house, he seems to discover a pathway to decode human language and regain the essence of love.

A teenager come to the city and living inside the half-demolished Wushan community.

At a picnic in the countryside, the woman accidentally strikes a shuttlecock into water. The man leaps into the river and then I hear the mountain wind.

To find the hometown in his memories, Zhu Xin tries to restore a Song Dynasty poem from a millennia ago, setting off a journey across time and space.