Seventeen-Year Destiny Cycle

"Leaving can be a positive exploration." In 2003, 17-year-old high school student Tao Jia-Tao, also known as Tomato, experienced a huge transformation in her life. In a short period, Tomato faced her parents' divorce, the decline of her family's fortune, living under someone else's roof, and even transferring from an international school to a traditional English secondary school. However, deep down, Tomato always held a longing: to leave home, to escape Hong Kong, and to flee to a beautiful place of fantasy. Later, Tomato met a juvenile delinquent named Xiao Qing at her new school... In order to realize her dream, Tomato and Xiao Qing joined an amateur theater troupe and rehearsed a play centered around the theme of "departure and stay." However, just as rehearsals were in full swing, the SARS outbreak occurred... "Leaving can also be a negative escape." Seventeen years later, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tomato hurried back to Hong Kong after hearing that her father had contracted pneumonia there. Coincidentally, the lonely Tomato and Xiao Qing received a message from director Au Yeung Cheung. The director hoped to revive the long-abandoned stage play from back then during the pandemic, to fulfill the dreams that were left uncompleted on stage in 2003. "Life is a circle; at some point, it will cycle like a period." Between the two pandemics, there is a cycle of good and bad fortune in life. People come and go on the runway of life, but always..."