China / 2025 / Fiction / 10’9”I2603654
In a mysterious bar called "Time Exchange", people can exchange their life force for various illusory yet tempting experiences—from reliving childhood memories and savoring moments of fame, to gaining a perfect intimate relationship. Everyone who steps in carries their own regrets and desires, trying to fill the voids in life through time transactions. When Luo Bing pushes open the bar's door and stares at the life gauge on his wrist, he, along with other patrons, gets entangled in a puzzle between reality and illusion: Is the fleeting comfort bought with life a salvation, or a deeper fall? The flowing lights and whispers in the bar quietly uncover the truths each person is reluctant to face.
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