The Wind Carries Flower Letters Through the Alley

The Wind Carries Flower Letters Through the Alley Plot:

The brass bell of the old post office at the alley entrance has rung for thirty years. Uncle Chen, who guards the office, always stares at the old letter in his drawer addressed to "Ah Ju, Third House at the Alley End"—it’s a "flower letter" a soldier asked him to send twenty years ago, saying he’d come back to marry Ah Ju after retiring from the army. Now the post office is to be demolished, and Lin Xiaoman, the designer newly in charge of the demolition project, is locked in a standoff with Uncle Chen: she wants to keep the alley that holds her childhood memories, not knowing that Uncle Chen has never been guarding the post office, but an unspoken promise. Until one spring day, the wind blows the faded letter out of the window. Lin Xiaoman follows the letter to the nursing home and finds Grandma Ah Ju holding an old floral dress—turns out Ah Ju knew the soldier had died ten years ago, but she still comes to the alley entrance every day, waiting for someone who’ll never come, waiting for the wind that carries the flower letter...