On the endless road, a large truck quickly disappeared into the night, and a middle-aged woman holding a ticket sat paralyzed on the side of the road and cried, unable to see if she was crying or laughing?
Who is she? What just happened? Why do you sit by the highway and cry so desperately for your life?
That's where the story begins! Let's follow my words into the world of this sad woman!
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01: The son fell in love early and owed a huge amount of compensation</h1>
Lin Jiawen is a single mother whose job is to collect tolls for passing vehicles on the highway with endless flow and continuous voice, referred to as the toll collector.
On this day, she went to work as usual, and suddenly an old face with a hippie smile appeared in front of her eyes. His name is Wang Zhihao, and he is a big truck driver. After chasing Lin Jiawen for a long time, Lin Jiawen always looked at him with the appearance of a hanging child lang dang, and did not move much at all.
After work, Lin Jiawen and her colleagues were playing badminton when suddenly a phone call broke the calm. The call came from my son's teacher. The son in junior high school fell in love with his classmate Leah and secretly had a relationship, which was discovered by the woman's parents.
Lin Jiawen hurried to the school, facing the blue-faced Liya's father, she was very ashamed and kept apologizing to the other party.
Leah's father directly proposed a solution of 827,000 Taiwan dollars in compensation. In order to calm things down and for the sake of her son's future, Lin Jiawen had to acquiesce and accept the other party's request and one-month deadline.
When she got home, she didn't turn on the lights and waited in the dark for her son to come home. However, the son was like a man without incident, Lin Jiawen was angry and was preparing to rebuke his son, who knew that he had just said a beginning, and the son in the rebellious period was like being trampled on the tail, and he instantly exploded.
He quarreled with Lin Jiawen in a fierce manner, and said that his relationship with Yali could not be measured by money at all, and after saying that, he rushed into his room and let his mother pound the door outside, hoarse and indifferent.
At this point, no matter how angry you are, the problem will eventually have to be solved.
Lin Jiawen called her ex-husband, she wanted to seek some help from the child's father, who knew that the phone was answered by her ex-husband's current wife, and before Lin Jiawen could explain her intentions, the other party hung up the phone.
The next day at work, Lin Jiawen unexpectedly heard a bad news from the station master. Manual charges should be converted to computer charges, and everyone will face the dilemma of layoffs or diversion placement.
Although I had heard about this matter before, I did not expect this day to come so quickly, which was undoubtedly worse. The company proposed a plan for everyone to choose, one of which was to give a compensation payment for five months' salary, as long as the plan was signed.
Lin Jiawen, who is in urgent need of money, is very impressed, but her colleagues who are good sisters are not satisfied with all the plans and have asked the government to come up with better plans, otherwise they will resolutely fight to the end. So she didn't have to say anything, so she had to raise her opposing hand with the current.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02: Single mom sells herself to save money</h1>
Lin Jiawen began to use her crooked brain at work, quietly using some fake banknotes to replace the real banknotes she received, hoping to accumulate more and more through this way and collect her son's compensation.
Even Wang Zhihao is no exception. He always wrote his phone number and love words on the return ticket, and even felt that the area was too small, and also transferred to the banknote, expecting to get the favor of his sweetheart. Unexpectedly, lin Jiawen reported it to the station manager on the grounds of using counterfeit money.
Wang Zhihao saw through Lin Jiawen's trick, and although he was a little surprised and angry, he still did not expose her.
Between work, Lin Jiawen called her ex-husband again, and after a verbal argument, the idea of borrowing money was still frustrated.
When he was frustrated, Wang Zhihao came over and told her with a hanging look, "Don't underestimate me, I'm a little kai." The implication is that if she has difficulties, financially he can help her, Lin Jiawen did not pay attention to him.
After work, Lin Jiawen sat on the side of the road worried, there was really no better solution. In desperation, she dialed Wang Zhihao's phone for help.
As soon as the two met, Lin Jiawen opened the door and said her intentions, but Wang Zhihao demanded that she must be her girlfriend. After some bargaining between the two, the desperate Lin Jiawen offered: a physical transaction, giving her ten thousand conditions at a time.
Although Wang Zhihao, who had long been fond of her, said that I could find a young girl at this price, he still nodded his head and agreed. That night, the two had their first deal at the dilapidated inn.
After that, the second, third, and more times, in order to make up money, Lin Jiaqi began to take the initiative to trade with Wang Zhihao. But Wang Zhihao, as if he really found a girlfriend, seriously invested in this feeling, and cared for Lin Jiawen with meticulous care.
On this day, Wang Zhihao went to his brother to borrow money. She happened to receive a call from Lin Jiawen, and her son skipped school. Since she was at work, she couldn't get out, so she had to ask him to help find it.
Wang Zhihao didn't say a word and agreed. When I left, I didn't forget to tell my brother that Lin Jiawen was a new girlfriend, and this time was different from the past, it was real. The brother was half-convinced, but still took some money for him.
Wang Zhihao took a lot of effort to find Lin Jiawen's son Yan Chao in the bookstore, and just when he pulled Yan Chao to the car, he unexpectedly lost his books.
Yan Chao saw this and teased Wang Zhihao, who secretly called the police and said that Wang Zhihao had kidnapped him. Soon, the two were taken back to the police station by the police who arrived quickly.
Lin Jiawen, who rushed to hear the news, lost her temper with her son, and at the same time felt guilty about the trouble she caused wang Zhihao. Wang Zhihao smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, little child, or you invite me to your house for dinner." Lin Jiawen did not agree.
A few days later, Wang Zhihao accidentally saw Yan Chao chasing Yali, and he quickly told him to get into the car and caught up with Yali. However, after a conversation between the two, Yali cruelly rejected Yan Chao.
Looking at Yan Chao, who was sad and weeping, Wang Zhihao changed his previous smiling appearance, he threw away his cigarette, walked over, and gently wrapped Yan Chao in his arms, comforting this sad child in a way that he felt was not very manly.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03: Slept, loved, and eventually went their separate ways</h1>
That night, perhaps out of gratitude, Yan Chao took Wang Zhihao home for dinner. Wang Zhihao took the opportunity to stay at his house and completed another transaction with Lin Jiawen.
The next day, Yan Chao asked Wang Zhihao and her mother if they were boyfriend and girlfriend. Wang Zhihao replied, "Nonsense, of course, you still think it's a prostitute and a prostitute?" When he went out, Wang Zhihao did not forget to invite them to a picnic.
Soon, he drove a truck with utensils to pick up the mother and son. The two were very surprised, but at the same time they were infected by Wang Zhihao's enthusiasm. Sitting on the truck, Yan Chao, who has always been rebellious, leaned on his mother.
That day, they had a great time at the beach, like a happy family of three.
But in the face of Wang Zhihao's inquiry, Lin Jiawen still said duplicitously, "What Hawaii, the water is dirty and dead." "There's a lot of garbage, and it's not that there are fish swimming in it." Just like us people, even if we are poor, we must continue to swim. ”
Lin Jiawen immediately took out the real money given by Wang Zhihao that day from her pocket and handed it to him. Wang Zhihao suddenly realized, "I just said well, I gave real money, you see, the words written on it are all carefully written by me." ”
Lin Jiawen read the above love words while laughing at him that he didn't know where he copied it?
The days went on like this, and the relationship between the three of them became more and more harmonious. Seeing that everything was developing in a good direction, who knew that at this time there was suddenly a new change.
On this day, Wang Zhihao came to pick up Lin Jiawen from work. On the car, there was a fashionably dressed young woman, wang Zhihao said to be his sister. The three of them came to the KTV together, watching Wang Zhihao's intimate appearance with his sister, Lin Jiawen was full of vinegar and could only drink alcohol on the side.
The next day, Wang Zhihao found Lin Jiawen and wanted to explain. Lin Jiawen pretended not to be angry on the surface, and even pulled Wang Zhihao over, kissed her, and took the initiative to take her home to Yunyu.
Afterwards, Wang Zhihao jokingly said, no money today? Lin Jiawen suddenly turned her face and said good deal? Wang Zhihao said, "Regarding money, we work together to solve it. Lin Jiawen did not spare, who expected that the quarrel between the two was just heard by the son outside the house.
He rushed into the house and scolded his mother for not having a face. Wang Zhihao was so angry that he beat him, and Lin Jiawen pounced on him, struggling to stop Wang Zhihao from committing violence against his son.
After calming down, Lin Jiawen asked him, do you really think we are in love? After Wang Zhihao repeatedly confirmed that she was only with herself for money, she burst into tears and turned away.
After Wang Zhihao left, Lin Jiawen was also listless, and the day to pay compensation to her son was coming soon, and the road toll from manual to computer was also coming. However, most importantly, Lin Jiawen has deeply felt that she is in love with Wang Zhihao.
At the dissolution meeting of the company, Lin Jiawen drank too much. After returning home, while counting the money that Wang Zhihao gave after the transaction, she remembered the warmth of the past, and she clearly saw her heart. Lin Jiawen plucked up the courage to make multiple phone calls to Wang Zhihao, but did not get a response.
Until the last day of manual charging at the toll station, Lin Jiawen finally saw Wang Zhihao. He handed her a return ticket as usual, but instead of the old laughter, he just smiled politely and drove away.
Lin Jiawen was a little uncomfortable, the ticket was blown off by the wind, she rushed to pick it up, almost hit by the car several times, and when she finally got the ticket, she found that there was nothing on it. In an instant, Lin Jiawen sat paralyzed on the highway and cried loudly.
When the day of paying the compensation came, Lin Jiawen took her son to the door of Leah's house, and Yan Chao was reluctant and ran away angrily. But after a while, he came back with a drink and waited with his mother. Maybe from this moment on, he has really grown up.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > summary:</h1>
Released in 2016, the movie "Island of Rivers" tells the love between a single mother and a driver and the affection between mother and son with extremely calm, delicate brushstrokes and a real and touching story.
Lin Jiawen and Wang Zhihao from money to sex to love and dependence, just like fish in muddy waters, because of the joy of fish and water, but in the end they blend with each other and rely on each other, making us feel a different kind of warmth.
You know, vigorous love we see too much, but humble love in adversity, but it is the most rare and precious. Everyone is an island, and everyone craves love.
The most memorable thing about the film is that Lin Jiawen chases the banknote that has been blown away by the wind in the endless traffic, just like chasing the love that has quietly disappeared, she wails on the side of the road, and she can't even tell whether it is crying or laughing.
As Teacher Europa said: "The input of Lin Jiawen and Wang Zhihao has made the dying struggle of these rutted fish more sentimental than a passer-by." ”
Man is always wandering, so love is needed.