Quarantine Hong Kong, 2021: Two strangers in adjacent hotel rooms, separated by centimeters yet completely closed off, discover each other through shared balconies and cell phones. He (Huang Bo) carries the weight of endless responsibilities; she (Ni Ni) is a mother at her career and emotional breaking point. Through cigarettes passed between balconies and conversations until dawn, they excavate buried dreams and hard-to-put-into-words emotions. Guan Hu (The Eight Hundred) transforms confinement into revelation. Zhang Ying's luminous cinematography won Best Cinematography at Shanghai, turning isolation into unexpected beauty. As quarantine ends, both face the question haunting every meaningful connection: When walls come down, do we return to our cages or dare to live differently? Tender, melancholic, transcendent.