"If Running Is My Life" is a realistic family drama that depicts the growth, struggles and struggles of four women in two families with real and delicate brushstrokes. Through their stories, the audience can deeply feel the hardships and beauty of life, as well as the deep emotional bond between mother and daughter.
Cheng Anxin and Chen Ruohua are cousins, and their mothers are sisters who are eleven years apart. Anxin's mother Zhao Xiufang is hearty, always smiling when she sees people, loves her daughter Cheng Anxin without asking for anything in return, and respects all her choices. And Zhao Xiuli is thoughtful, patriarchal, and always has only her son Chen Ruoxuan in her eyes.
An An, a young dance teacher, lost her legs in a car accident on her mother, Zhao Xiufang, on her 60th birthday. Cheng Anxin couldn't accept the reality after sobering up, and began to toss the people around him with the greatest malice.
Faced with her disheartened daughter Anxin, and her increasingly fragile and evasive son-in-law Qin Feng, Xiufang, who has always been obese, is determined to inspire her daughter's confidence by completing the ** that has never succeeded. She wanted Anxin to know that if she could lose weight, then Cheng Anxin would definitely be able to stand up again
In the company of Xiufang, Anxin gradually accepted the reality of losing his legs, walked out of the shadow of failed marriage, and stood up again to face life.
The relationship between Chen Ruohua and her mother Zhao Xiuli is more realistic and depressing in the play, and many real details in it can be found in most of our Chinese families, which is the epitome of Chinese-style families.
Chen Ruohua grew up in a patriarchal family since she was a child, and as an older sister, she wants to set an example for her younger brother; As a daughter, she has to do housework.
Although her parents are patriarchal and she is not valued, she is very eager for maternal love.
However, in a car accident, his younger brother Ruoxuan died, and his mother Xiuli transferred her love and dependence to Ruohua because of her brother's death.
At the beginning, Ruohua, who lacked love, was flattered by this, and the warmth she had never felt swept over at once, making her lose herself in the warm spring of maternal love, and she couldn't see the huge net spreading in the dark.
Under the pressure of her mother step by step and even forced to die, the girl who already lacked self-confidence lost the courage and confidence to deal with difficulties. In the end, Chen Ruohua became paranoid under the influence of her mother beauty.
But Zhao Xiuli finally saw Ruoxuan's last words**, and she was shocked when she loved Ruoxuan deeply.
In the naked fact that "Ruoxuan was forced to die by himself", he finally discovered that his paranoid love was a huge harm to the child.
She understands that the real "good for the child" is to encourage the child to be a free-flying bird on his own, rather than a bird trapped in a cage.
Zhao Xiuli's awakening allowed Chen Ruohua to gain a real space to play himself. Chen Ruohua finally went to Beijing and started to run for his career.
Although a sudden car accident completely changed the lives of Zhao Xiufang and Zhao Xiuli's sisters. Let the originally peaceful family fall into endless pain and struggle in an instant.
But their different attitudes towards their children also determine their status in the hearts of children. In this ever-changing world, how they will choose and how they will face the future path will become an unavoidable topic in their lives.