Twigs and Gum

At a film set, the returning actress Suzu, treads the path of endurance, bearing the weight of humility, carrying burdens untold, seeking a chance to shine, to prove her worth.

After she is forced to move in with her estranged daughter, an elderly religious woman begins to connect with her young grandson.

After a bank job gone wrong, infamous outlaws The Lily and The Scorpion are on the run, but as day turns into night the partners’ trust in each other begins to fray.

Leo, Francisca and Lara have just finished high school. Faced with an uncertain future, they spend their last summer together cycling through the streets of Córdoba while searching for a lost cassette of their favorite rock band.

Kai, a reclusive young man who believes he's being filmed by aliens, forms an unexpected bond with his new roommate, Xiaole. When Xiaole mysteriously vanishes, Kai must piece together the puzzle of his lover, uncovering a portrait both familiar and strange.

Single mother Ye Xiang (played by Yan Ni) is a hospital cleaner who lives in the miscellaneous room with her autistic son Can (played by Peng Yuchang). Various characters such as Doctor Mili, Leader Zhao, Canned Friend Hongmao, and Canned Heartbeat Girl Cuicui have entered their lives and formed various emotional connections with them. These experiences, whether warm or sad, affect the growth of canned food and Ye Xiang's inner world, as well as bring ups and downs to their mother son relationship. After experiencing a thousand sails, Ye Xiang finally decided to let go of his grip on canned food for twenty years and run alone towards a broader sky

An old widower, Jasper, routinely makes coffee in two mugs and picks up trash around his community. Some of his more interesting finds speckle his home. His neighbors mostly disregard him. On one of his regular hunts, he chances upon an envelope. To his surprise, he finds old wedding photos and presumes the addressee, Angie, to be the bride. Determined to complete the delivery, Jasper follows a map to the address. When he finally arrives, his excitement is upended when Angie, now divorced, rebuffs him and the photos. He leaves her with an open invitation to his home, should she change her mind. The next morning, Jasper starts his routine-only to find Angie at his door. After a heart-to-heart on loss and new life, Jasper invites Angie to pick up trash with him. Together, they go.

Naima is still a student in a boarding school, but she collides with the reality of life early on. She loves Kamal, the actor, but he cannot marry her because he is engaged to his cousin. At the same time, Naima's uncle tries to marry her to his crazy son so that he can get the money she inherited. This is where the school principal intervenes to help her.

18-year-old Zhang Shiyi was full of pessimism and confusion about the future, until one day he accidentally discovered his mother Dongyu's diary. Through Diary 11, I gradually began to understand my mother whom I had never met before. This seemingly ordinary woman had a short but brave and sunny life.

In the 1990s, Liu Zhiyong (Shen Teng), a small-time employee at the Meteorological Bureau, epitomizes the group of self-seeking intellectuals, but is instead a rebel in the iron rice bowl. Growing up in a patriarchal family, he always thought he could make a name for himself. It is at this time that Liu Zhiyong receives an invitation from a close friend to go to Xihai. Liu Zhiyong quits his job in the system and prepares to go to Xihai from the mainland to seek opportunities and to start crashing into all the established “orders”. Liu Zhiyong and three other young people gathered in the city of Xihai, in that era in the real estate industry in the ups and downs of the boom, their experience of the ups and downs of the three young people to break into the West China Sea, dare to take risks, looking forward to their youth to break into a better future, but gradually walking on the edge of the line in the radical.

First chapter of surreal mini-series by Gabriel Reyes.