Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
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Yang Fan and her husband, Yuan Yong, and Xiao Fang, a restaurant attendant, continued from night to day, and from the sun to a treacherous night. The stories that happened to each other are absurd but extremely sad. The three people were bound to each other but could not leave each other.
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