Lamp

When singer Angela Zhang finds herself physically and emotionally exhausted, a mysterious lamp appears, claiming to grant three wishes. Thus begins her odyssey through mind-bending realms where dreams fuse with reality, and eternity collides with fleeting moments. She indulges in lavish extravagance within gilded illusions, storms the Archives of Love to overturn dusty heartbreak doctrines, and ultimately confronts her aged self at the end of time—within a house where memories crystallize into walls.
In this twilight sanctuary, two versions of Angela unfold a raw dialogue: about the weight of home, the poetry hidden in wrinkles, the paradox of creation that both liberates and imprisons, and the fragile flame of original aspiration that flickers through decades.
Returning to reality, she awakens to a revelation—every vision in the illusion traces back to reality’s tapestry. There exists no magic lamp, only the extraordinary ordinary people around her: their unnoticed kindnesses flickers of light that, stitch by stitch, silently weave a galaxy in life’s dark night.

by Zoe Peng (China)