Sun Yan (Hong Tao), who lives in the shadow of her sister Sun Li (Niu Li), has always longed to be like her sister. She is beautiful and highly educated. There are always boys around her, but everything is ordinary. Although the beautiful sister likes the handsome childhood friend Ma Liming (Xu Yajun), she thinks he is disappointing and later marries researcher Jaco (Liu Guanjun).

Here, Pan (), a hospital logistics staff introduced by the master, is not as literary and romantic as his brother-in-law, but he wins by being frank and being kind to himself. But my sister Sun Li looks down on Pan. At this time, Sun Yan's primary school classmate Zhai Zhigang (He Bing) launched a fierce pursuit of her, and they got married soon.

However, after the marriage, Sun Yan found that Zhai Zhigang was narrow-minded, and the two were totally out of step, which ended in divorce. The sister who loves tossing left her daughter and brother-in-law, went abroad to hook up with foreigners, and finally divorced. Everything turned around, and Ma Liming and Pan appeared in front of the sisters.

If divided by genre, Empty Mirror can be regarded as an urban emotional drama of that era, with Beijing as the background, telling the love of young men and women; From today's perspective, it is also like a family ethics drama. No matter how to distinguish, the shooting technique and temperament style of "Empty Mirror" will really kill the urban emotional drama or family ethics drama after 20 years!

Like a soothing and elegant prose poem. Any emotional ups and downs are handled so implicitly. In that era when there was no hot search, creators didn't have to cater to anyone deliberately.

You can explore the details artistically. Long and short empty shots, stop-and-go buses and looming music show not only old Beijing around the new century, but also the old city era in our personal memory. At the same time, nostalgia is also a touch of sadness and melancholy.