It's the third installment in the director's YOUTH trilogy, about young Chinese textile industry workers, following 2023's YOUTH (SPRING) and 2024's YOUTH (HARD TIMES). Textile workshops in Zhili slow their operation for the New Year's holiday, with many workers returning home. Shi Wei and Fang Lingping both get married over the break, with the latter's new husband, an information technology specialist, planning to join his new bride in Zhili