Leap Over the Cliff

Lin Fan, a typical post-80s Chinese man who failed to enter the civil service and works in planning, is married and has children. Pressures and releases from wife, child, money, house, and car tighten around him like a tightening curse, binding him tightly, yet his pursuit of ideals in his heart has never stopped. During a family vacation to the seaside, he discovers an unremarkable cliff behind a small village by the sea. With a wildly imaginative idea, he wants to turn that ordinary-looking cliff, just like himself, into a one-of-a-kind hotel. Carrying this near-crazy dream, Lin Fan withstands his family’s incomprehension and the mocking looks of those around him, and begins a Don Quixote-like path toward realizing his dream. From luckily getting onto television to record a program, to thereby coming into contact with all kinds of people in society, can this cliff hotel that Lin Fan insists on pouring everything he has into actually be built?

This work, through a large amount of inner monologue, delicately portrays the life state of a typical post-80s person who feels underappreciated and unable to make a name for himself. It is believed to resonate with peers of this era.