"A Long-Life Play" - Close in the Distance, a new production of Shenzhen Kangdafu Film & Television Co., Ltd, has broken the record for length of mainland situation plays. The first year will see the production of 260 episodes.
Allegedly, the entire Close in the Distance is expected to exceed one thousand episodes. The "separation section", which serves as the prelude to the story, is eighty episodes long.
Close in the Distance is divided into three parts: "separation section", "return section" and "fusion section". The upper volume of the "separation section" of Close in the Distance, which has just met with the audience, begins in Shanghai in the 1930s. Against the backdrop of national calamity, the grudges and entanglements between the four wives of a rich merchant family and their offspring make the plot twist and turn and the characters complicated. Although the whole family fights fate and various social forces in an unstable era, they are eventually scattered to mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, America and other places. The story is tragic, beautiful and moving.