Lily is a young and beautiful working girl, but because she lives with a Hong Kong container truck driver Long Zai, she became a single mother at the age of 19, and just when Lily was looking forward to a better future for the two, Long Tsai left a sorry note and disappeared without a trace.
Lily stood in the turbulent traffic with a big belly, and when each truck passed in front of her, she had to tiptoe to see if the driver inside was the dragon boy she was looking for, which was more than ten days, and finally returned disappointed.
Liu Nan, 48, is a freelance writer who wants her to tell her story in order to find materials to write a book and find Lily.
Lily can't go to Hong Kong without a pass, Liu Nan asked to know, she didn't even have the address of Long Zai in Hong Kong, this girl obviously met a scumbag.
Lily insisted that Dragon Boy was not a liar, and that he was good to her and knew that he was hurting her, how could such a person be a liar?
Liu Nan asked rhetorically, can you run away when you are about to give birth?
Lily frowned and was a little confused, Liu Nan asked Lily if she hated Long Zai to abandon her, Lily said that at first she was looking forward to people coming back, and then she hated it when there was no hope, and finally there was no hope at all, because she knew that it was useless but she didn't hate it.
Lily had a small dream of making a lot of money by opening a ramen restaurant and then becoming a city dweller. Lily's hands are indeed clever, and the work is also sharp. She used to do a good job at a ramen restaurant, but the manager fired her because she was worried that she had given birth to her child in the shop.
Because there was no money, Lily had to secretly hide in the dormitory to give birth, who wanted to give birth but had a difficult birth but had a life hanging in the balance, and the good sister Hu Jinling sent Lily to the hospital in time.
Because of the unmarried birth, she could only go to a private hospital to give birth, but fortunately, Hu Jinling gathered a group of little sisters to support, and this three hundred and two hundred and five made up enough money.
In order to raise the child and pay off the debt as soon as possible, Lily had to go to the former factory workshop to find the director to help, the director proposed to send the child back to her hometown, but this is only a luxury for Lily, Lily's mother reorganized the family and had a son, except for asking her for money.
Later, she carried her child to the talent market, but met a trafficker, who, in the name of recruiting, tricked her into coming to a van in a secluded place, and the man in the van held the child and gave her a paper bag with three thousand yuan in it, saying that it was paid to her in advance.
The man also took out a piece of paper to let her press the handprint, she saw that it was an agreement to sell the child, she was anxious to hold the child back, the man forcibly pulled her to press the handprint and then drove to run, she grabbed the car door and refused to let go, worried about life, the trafficker helplessly returned the child to her.
Lily went to the hospital to treat the wound, by the way to see if the child had a cold, who expected the doctor to say something like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, the child had a very serious congenital heart disease, let her quickly take it to the big hospital for surgery.
Surgery requires at least 80,000 yuan, which is worse, Lily found Hu Jinling, wanted her to come up with a way to make money, she herself planned to go to a big money, as long as she can give money on the line, just saw an old gentleman reading a newspaper next to her.
Lily shoved the child into Hu Jinling's arms, and without thinking about it, she strode over to the old man, asked the other party if she had 80,000 yuan, and said that as long as she could give her money, she could do anything, and the old man was not frightened, but gave her a business card, but the business card was confiscated by Hu Jinling.
In order to make money, Lily put her child in a nursery, went to the hotel to be the emcee, after some makeup, Lily was like a rebirth, she smiled slightly in the mirror, it turned out that she could also become so beautiful.
Just as the group stood in the lobby to receive guests, Lily received a call from the aunt of the nursery, her son had a high fever and could not take care of the leave, Lily panicked and ran to the nursery, and the aunt asked Lily to take the child to the hospital quickly.
The doctor said a bunch of medical terms, summed up in a sentence is that the child's situation is very dangerous, need to do surgery immediately, Lily can't come up with money, can't sign the child for surgery, and put the child in the hospital and run away by himself.
But the hotel cheongsam she wore had the hotel work card on it, and the hospital soon found her and educated her, and Lily couldn't hide the fact that she had children, and was fired by the hotel.
In order to raise the operation fee as soon as possible, she accepted Hu Jinling's arrangement and came to the wedding scene of an upstart, and the boss of the upstart took a look at her and took her to her mansion.
Lily offered to let the boss give her 80,000 yuan, the boss learned that Lily had a seriously ill son who was in urgent need of money for surgery, the two did not negotiate in the end, the boss sympathized with her and gave her five thousand yuan, Lily felt that she could not take the money in vain, so she quietly stuffed the money back through the crack in the door.
Forced by life, Lily came to the restaurant to brush the dishes, wanting to make money by her own efforts, but 80,000 yuan is not a small amount, left and right, Lily decided to sell kidneys for money.
She contacted the introducer and met with the other party, negotiated the terms, and the other party took her to a private small clinic, where the doctor asked for a thousand yuan for the test fee, and Lily tangled and paid.
The doctor let her loosen the belt of her pants, Lily questioned that this is not like a hospital, the test why do you have to take off your pants, the doctor was ashamed and angry, claiming that he did not want the test to go, but don't want to return the money, Lily has a heart seven up and eight down, considering that the child needs money for surgery, or agreed.
The doctor had just taken a particularly thick syringe and stuck it down, Hu Jinling suddenly broke through the door, pulled up Lily and ran out, she felt that this was a scam, and did not want Lily to be deceived.
Desperate, helpless Lily, decided to find a rich and good family for the child, she did not understand that abandoning the child is a crime, so she put the child in a large cardboard box, placed in the side of the small park with a relatively large flow of people, left some money and a note, and left in a hurry.
Lily did not go far, she came to a high-end restaurant opposite, bought a fritter and a bowl of soy milk, absent-mindedly eating and drinking, while nervously paying attention to the every move of passers-by outside, some people stopped and watched, but no one took the child.
Lily couldn't help but rush out of the restaurant and pick up her son who was crying so hard that her heart was tearing, and the sad tears could no longer stop surging down, although she didn't give up, she finally resisted not taking the child.
Eventually, a young and infertile teacher couple took away the cardboard box, Lily was not at ease to follow all the way, and when she found out that the couple was not a rich and noble family, I was afraid that there was no money to treat the child, so she rushed straight in, explained to the couple, and held the child to leave.
The couple also forced Lily to give Lily eight hundred yuan, and Lily lamented that they were good people, but unfortunately they did not have money to help the child treat his illness.
Originally, Liu Nan only came to find materials, but after contact, she was particularly sympathetic to Lily's suffering, and was touched by Lily's objective and cheerful attitude in adversity, so she took Lily and her children to the mall to buy the best milk powder for her son to drink.
When the landlord of Lily's rented house came to the door to urge rent, Lily could not get the money to ask the landlord for a few days of grace, but the landlord's old man opened his mouth to let Lily give three times the money a day, Liu Nan could not see it, and threatened him to call the police if he blackmailed again.
Liu Nan and Lily discussed to give her money, But Lily refused to ask, Liu Nan wanted to write Lily's encounter into an article in newspapers and websites, hoping to meet rich and kind people to help her, in order to contact Lily in the future, Liu Nan gave her his mobile phone.
At the end of the film, the director arranges three endings for Lily.
In the end one, Liu Nan met Lily in prison, she told Lily that there is a website that has helped her raise money, but Lily said that it is useless, in order to raise money for her son to treat the disease, she was involved in the drug transport case and was sentenced to a suspended death sentence, in return, the other party helped her to operate on the child, Lily finally hoped that the child would not know of her existence.
In the second ending, Bai synthesized into a hostess of an old and wealthy businessman, who originally committed herself to the old man who gave her business card in order to treat her son, and her husband had already helped her pay for the operation of the child, and Lily was pregnant with the old man's child.
In the third ending, Liu Nan called Lily and told her that a website had raised money for her, but Lily's child did not wait for this day to come, and unfortunately died earlier.
Liu Nan, who hung up the phone, walked in despair, looking up, there were all kinds of girls around him, each of whom seemed to have the shadow of a lily on his body.
"Lily" is a fresh style literary and artistic film, directed by the famous director Zhou Xiaowen, starring Chinese opera newcomer Wang Zitong.
The inspiration of this film comes from network news, and the events of those teenage mothers and unmarried mothers in the society hit the depths of human nature, giving Zhou Xiaowen the impulse to create this film, and it took four years to complete this film, which can be said to be an ingenious work based on society.
The film uses the intersection of the present and the past to tell the story of a ill-fated single mother who struggles with her congenital heart disease son to the bottom of society.
The heroine Lily is unfortunate, but while suffering from life, she can maintain a kind and upright heart, but it is very precious.
The little sister who helped Lily in the film The teacher husband and wife, as well as the freelance writer Liu Nan, are not perfect people, but they are more like real beings with flesh and blood, although selfish or impure, but after learning of Lily's tragic experience, they can still release goodwill and give Baiheli help within their reach.
Although this society is sometimes indifferent, there are still more good people in the end.
The three endings presented at the end of the film, each of which can not be counted as satisfactory, but more real, a young girl who takes a wrong step, a single mother who is struggling on the edge of the bottom of society, how difficult it is to change her fate.
After all, this movie is still a sad and lamentable tragedy, and the girls that Liu Nan sees in the end are also living at the bottom of society, and it seems that the shadow of lily can be seen in each of them.
Who knows if one of them has a more tragic fate?