What if falling in love meant learning how to die together first?
Tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
Acting
Jackson Yee's restrained grief will wreck you silently.
Writing
Cancer teens who feel like real messy humans, not martyrs.
Director
Han Yan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of China's 'cancer teen' film wave, reflecting real stigma around illness and mortality in youth culture. The title references a classic socialist song about sacrifice, reclaimed here as private resilience.
Jackson Yee (Wei Yihang) was 19 during filming and had just become the youngest Best Actor nominee in Hong Kong Film Awards history—for another cancer drama. The boy has a TYPE.
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