Director: Zhou Zikai

Synopsis

Male cicadas sing to attract females for mating. After fertilization the female uses her ovipositor to pierce a row of small holes in a branch and lays her eggs in them, and a few weeks later both male and female die. This is nature's relay of life and hope. To stay alive, Zhang Xiaoxiao, a uremia patient, signs a marriage agreement with Wu Zhongnan, a cancer patient: after his death he will donate his kidney to her, and she will take care of his father. It began as a deal for survival, but as they spend time together they fall in love. Two people with terminal illnesses: will they choose life or love? At the end of his life he writes a will leaving his kidney to her; for his sake she marries someone else and will come tomorrow with the money for his treatment. With love they give each other a future.