在这部珍珠短片片中,20世纪70年代，在中国东南部的一个小渔村，6岁的玲由一位丧偶的母亲抚养长大。她不仅要做家务，还要努力赚钱供8岁的哥哥上学。有一天，哥哥带给她一个惊人的消息：他们的母亲遇到了一个男人，他想把他们安置到一个叫台湾的地方。玲激动地认为她离开这个小村庄的梦想就要实现了，她辗转反侧，度过了一个漫长的不眠之夜。但第二天，她醒来后发现家里已经空无一人。
In a desolate Chinese fishing village, a six-year old girl lives with her younger brother and their single mother, struggling to survive at the brink of poverty. Unbeknownst to the young girl, her mother, an oyster harvester, is given the opportunity to leave her home town and improve her living situation under one condition: to leave one child behind.
珍珠般的她在深海巡游。
