This is a story about love: not only the love between grandparent and grandchild, of raising a child and caring for a parent in return, but the unconditional support, tenderness and protection one person gives another. It is one of the most moving and warm things in human nature. Just as an ordinary cabbage can have the beauty of a rose, it is what we most want to hold on to in an uncertain and cold world.
A courier delivers a bouquet of roses with a declaration of love. The recipient is not 18-year-old Xiaobai but 78-year-old Meiying, who is secretly having a romance. Xiaobai, meanwhile, has failed the college entrance exam and is at a low point: her parents have divorced and refuse to take care of her, and the jobs she was counting on fall through one after another. Grandmother and granddaughter share a room, bickering and quarrelling yet loving and depending on each other. When Meiying's romance runs into trouble and she faces moral and social pressure, Xiaobai is offered a challenge and must choose between her future and her grandmother, who is about to be sent to a nursing home. After joys and sorrows, partings and reunions, even a plate of cabbage roots can become a rose. The rose stands for true love: caring for each other through hardship and never letting go.
Genre:
Family, ComedyDirector:
Yuan YuanScreenwriter:
Chen QilingProducer:
Li WenjieProduction Company:
Rongyu CultureYuan Yuan: screenwriter and young director. Selected screenwriting credits: Go Away Mr. Tumor, Us and Them and Tomorrow Will Be Better. Her work has received nominations at the China Golden Rooster Awards, the China Huabiao Film Awards and the Taipei Golden Horse Awards, among others. Go Away Mr. Tumor was the Chinese mainland's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards. Directing credit: Tomorrow Will Be Better.
Chen Qiling: writer and screenwriter. Winner of the Lin Yutang Literary Award and the first prize of the United Daily News Literary Award. In 2022 she wrote the film project Brilliant Her. In 2022 her film project Come Eat at My Place won the Maitewenhua Maimeng Film Co-Growth Program Award at the FIRST Project Market. In 2021 her film project The Small-Town Doctor's Secret was selected as an outstanding project at the Beijing International Film Festival Project Market. In 2019 her film project Extraordinary Mother and Daughter won the Best Original Screenplay Award and the MPV Award at the Beijing International Film Festival Project Market. In 2016 her screenplay Dad, Son and the Goose received an Outstanding Screenplay Award in the Xia Yan Cup screenplay competition and was selected for the China Film Administration's key support projects and the Tencent Young Directors Program.
Li Wenjie: CEO and producer at Rongyu Culture. She was previously senior production manager at Tingdong Film and business coordinator at We Production. Film projects: producer of Come Eat at My Place, which won the Maitewenhua Maimeng Film Co-Growth Program Award at the 2022 FIRST Project Market; producer of The Small-Town Doctor's Secret, selected as an outstanding project at the 2021 Beijing International Film Festival Project Market; project director on Duckweed; assistant to the executive producer on Soulmate; business coordinator and assistant to the director and executive producer on Dearest and American Dreams in China; business coordinator and producer on Beauty Diary.
Rongyu Culture: focuses on developing creative content for film, television and animation, aiming to tell good stories with a positive outlook and to work with partners for mutual benefit.
A lively 78-year-old grandmother who loves to look good and throws herself into romances and break-ups, and her withdrawn, cold 18-year-old granddaughter who stays at home and has given up on herself. Sharing a room, the unlikely pair bicker yet love and depend on each other, keep each other company through their darkest moments and each become the warmest light in the other's life.