Newly married journalist Xia Yin moved into her husband's apartment. However, her not-so-sweet newlywed life, as well as the suicide of a colleague and the failure of her investigation to be published publicly ...... the dual frustrations of family and work, prompted Xia Yin to go to the countryside on the grounds of an interview assignment. In the countryside, Xia Yin met a little girl, Xiaoshu, who lived with her grandmother. Xiaoshu's spiritual and unconscious hypnosis allowed Xia Yin to glimpse the black hole deep inside herself, and this strange encounter in the countryside made her re-examine her situation.

理想主义的汤老师在流沙堆积的小岛上经营有机农场，多年运营农场使他面临困境和失败。小余追随汤老师扎根有机农场，在山中隐居的母亲下山到农场小住，等待女儿小余在冬至那天和她一起回老家。母亲的目光让女儿意识到生命中无法回避的创伤。此时农场正在经历运营方式转型，一场暴风改变了每个人。

One summer night, Zhen Liu’s husband, Xiao Ping, is arrested out of the blue and cannot be reached after being dragged away by the police 30 days earlier. Liu goes to the police in search of information about her husband, but to no avail. Her husband’s sudden disappearance slowly destroys her while her relationship with her kindergarten-age daughter becomes rocky as well. She visits her husband’s friends to ask for their help, but gets only various assumptions about his arrest in return. Liu manages to bring her former boyfriend and attorney Lv Xin on board and together they search for her husband. Thanks to Lv Xin’s connections, they locate where her husband is, but the police’s unreasonably demanding requests eventually discourage her husband’s release. An unassuming examination, shown in documentary style, of a Chinese society helpless under state power.

新婚后的记者夏因搬进丈夫家里，因工作或心理不适一直无法整理婚前物品；同事自杀事件对她心理和工作都带来影响，夏因关注的问题不能公开发表，丈夫自行处置夏因的物品，对她的处事方式表示不满，家庭和工作的双重挫折，促使夏因以一个采访任务为由下乡。在农村夏因遇到一个和奶奶相依为命的小女孩小树，小树灵性的而不经意的催眠，让夏因窥见了自己内心深处的黑洞，这次下乡的奇遇让她重新审视自己的处境。