One autumn morning, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her lavish Beijing apartment to find her husband dead. Like something out of a dream, next to the tub she discovers a pencil sketch of a strange watery figure, an image that swims into her mind and won't leave. The mysterious drawing launches Jia Jia on an odyssey across contemporary Beijing. Unencumbered by a marriage that had constrained her, she travels into her past to try to discover things that were left unsaid by the people closest to her.
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