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 leave Hong Kong, and escape to a beautiful place of her fantasies. 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, SARS broke out... "Leaving can also be a negative escape." Seventeen years later, as COVID-19 wreaked havoc, 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 unfinished stage play from back in those days during the pandemic, to fulfill the dreams that were left on stage in 2003. "Life is a circle; at a certain point in time, it will cycle like a period." Between the two pandemics, there seem to be alternating cycles of good luck and misfortune in life. People come and go on the runway of life, but there is always...