The old mantou said: He said that if there is light, the world will have light.
Dora was the coolest old woman at Grand Central Station, and after she retired, she made a living helping illiterate people write letters and letters in Rio, Brazil's then capital. She still had to work after retirement, and her life was tight, but she never complained to people, did not cry, and of course, almost never smiled at outsiders. Her attitude to life is so puzzling: what she does is to convey the warmth of family letters, to be able to touch the light, why does it feel like she is always hiding in the dark?
Years of writing letters and sending letters made her friend dissatisfied, and the friend thought that Dora was an because people paid for the letters written by Dora, and Dora either tore them up or put them in a drawer and never sent them out.
Dora did more than tear letters, she also sold children. The target of the sale was Joshua, the youngest son of the client who wrote the letter. After the client accidentally died in a car accident, she found the smuggler and sold Joshua to a welfare home.
Dora regrets selling Joshua because she learns from her friends that the welfare home is doing human organ trafficking behind its back. The last light of her humanity kept her awake all night, and she finally risked being hunted down by human traffickers to rescue Joshua Jr.
Dora has lived most of her life in darkness, how can she make herself so kind, and risk death to save little Joshua, which is not allowed in her years of cool life principles. To this end, she decided to send little Joshua to the old steamed bun that abandoned his father, who had abandoned him, and for several days afterwards, her biggest regret was to take Joshua on the road.
The road is tortuous, and Dora sends little Joshua on the way to find her father, because Joshua, the principles he had adhered to before, were trampled to the point of no end.
First of all, she cried, she cried not because of physical injuries, but because she wanted to send Joshua away, she was worried, guilty and reluctant to cry, would she still have a soft heart? She doubted life; she laughed, and in the process of delivering Joshua, she actually met Twilight Love, who was a truck driver who had been pulling goods for many years; she collapsed, when Joshua, because of disobedience, made their journey difficult, without money and tickets, and they almost starved to death on the road.
When she helped Joshua find her family, she felt that she had reached her twilight years and felt the taste of being alive and loving. The radical change in Dora during a trip is mostly related to Joshua's biological father and old steamed buns.
It turned out that she had been helping Joshua find the old steamed buns, and she had long disappeared. Both Dora and Joshua have their own speculations about the disappearance of the old bun: died on the street/wandered/never existed/is still alive, can still be found/must not be found/may be found.
Dora struggled to the end, finding only the two sons of the old man: Moses and Isaiah.
When Dora realizes that the goodness and pain in her heart have merged into something strange, light appears in her world. She had resented her father for abandoning her when she was very young, and she resented her irresponsible father for letting her live in the endless darkness of her life. Now, she misses her father. Why? Because she read the letter from Moses about the old steamed buns.
There are many things written in the old steamed bun letter, such as what he said at the beginning of the story: "If there is light, there will be light in the world." Such coaxing words, skipping these words, read the letter to the end shed tears.
The words in the letter that brought her to tears and the names read in the letter were all made up by her, so why should she be hung up? Because she discovered the truth of the matter: the old steamed bun did exist, but when she took Joshua on the road to find the old steamed bun, the old steamed bun was indeed gone. In the end, she became an old steamed bun, why? Parenthood!