She napped through her twenties. Now she's crashing freshman orientation at 32.
As she was about to graduate from university, Fei Li was hit by a suddenly broken old tree and fell into a coma for more than a decade. After waking up, she strived to get her life back on track, and things started to take a turn for the better. She chose to return to campus—the very place where everything in her life had been put on hold.
Acting
Wen Qi captures bewildering displacement with heartbreaking precision.
Direction
Zheng Ziyi balances magical premise with grounded emotional truth.
Director
Zheng Ziyi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'lying flat' phenomenon meets magical realism—commentary on youth unemployment anxiety in contemporary China.
Director Zheng Ziyi cast Wen Qi after her own career hiatus, mirroring the film's themes of professional rebirth.
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