The Tree Hollow Heard

Inside a camphor tree hollow, all the secrets of a village were hidden. For three hundred years, the villagers stuffed everything they dared not say, could not say, or could not forget into that bowl-sized hollow. Until one morning, a boy stuffed in a yellow paper with the words 'I'm sorry' written on it, and the sleeping camphor tree woke up. It sensed the regret on the paper, heard the cough in the rainy night, and also saw a woman dragging a suitcase back to her hometown. Her childhood old photos were related to the iron can in the tree hollow thirty years ago; and that IOU led to a hidden cause and effect spanning two generations. Deep in the tree hollow, what was buried was not just old objects, but the buried past of the entire village. As secrets surfaced one by one, Uncle Camphor discovered that all the stories pointed to the same answer—someone was forgetting, and it was remembering for everyone. Every tree hollow hides a cause and effect that no one wants to mention. — Description from novelcodex.org