Wang Lin's parents have experienced a life of unbearable suffering. The fact that the father is infected with HIV and the wife is also infected cannot help but cause deep anxiety and fear among their daughters. In the critically ill intensive care unit, the father was sick, while the mother hid a heart and kept it for more than 20 days so as not to worry her husband. However, in the end, she couldn't help it and told her husband the heavy secret, revealing the cruel truth. The father's speechlessness, the mother's questioning, and Wang Lin's unforgettable fear all seem to tell the torture and suffering suffered by this family.
According to statistics from the China Center for AIDS and STD Prevention and Control, people living with HIV over the age of 50 have always been a group that cannot be ignored, and the proportion of newly reported cases aged 50 and over has risen from 22% in 2011 to 44% in 2020. According to the latest research in the Chinese Journal of Epidemiology, among the elderly HIV infected people, the number of males infected is about three times that of females, and most of the infected people are people with low education level and mainly engaged in agricultural activities, of which heterosexual transmission accounts for 909%。This seems to reveal the reality that mobile life, repressed sexual needs, and lonely old age may have to some extent become the triggers for AIDS infection among the elderly. The scars of the times wreak havoc inside them, until the most fragile old age erupts beyond restraint.
In China, the number of older women living with HIV is increasing, often in marriage, which means they suffer both mental and physical blows. Just like Wang Lin's parents, when they found out they were infected with HIV, the whole family fell into panic and struggle. Wang Lin's mother confessed the truth to her father in the intensive care unit where her father was critically ill, and this scene made both her and her mother feel extremely terrifying, as if they were unfamiliar with each other.