Ziqi Guo (Director); Yi Liu (Actor)

The world of the future is a thoroughly digital one, where people are measured quantitatively by all kinds of numbers. It is believed that extreme digitization and metrics can be used to better identify good people. For example, emotions. For the elite, it is important not to reveal their emotions in order to be as effective as possible in a fierce competition. Because emotions can be their own undoing at any given time. That's why there are now machines that can regulate emotions. The technology of the future has distilled emotions into a series of numbers, and humans have invented machines like emotion controllers that try to use them to analyze emotions. Machines have replaced most professions because people are used to trusting machines that are as objective as numbers. People believe that machines are more likely to help people alleviate their emotions than psychologists because the numbers are more accurate and people trust them more. People believe that emotional dialysis machines can maximize the use of sophisticated algorithms to analyze people's emotions, categorize them, and then give feedback back to the person. In this way, people can be mentally recharged quickly. It can help people adapt quickly.