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Zhang Wei sits in an empty subway car, watching stations flash by. He doesn't know where he's going — just riding the loop line until the day ends. His story intertwines with other migrants in Beijing: a waitress from Sichuan, a construction worker from Henan, a student from Heilongjiang. Each came to the capital chasing dreams but finds only endless fatigue and loneliness in the megacity. The 2025 documentary explores China's internal migration phenomenon through personal stories of people severed from their roots. Director Li Xiao follows his subjects through daily routines — from cramped dormitories to night shifts, from video calls with family to solitary meals in cheap canteens. The film becomes a collective portrait of a generation living between two worlds, where north and south, male and female, past and future constantly collide in search of a new home.