Xing yuan 1999 A young man, blind and dumb, works as an audio tape typist in a hospital and fostering a tender and sincere relationship with a beautiful but introverted nurse When hit by a car, he is the sixty billionth human being to die on earth, and is on transit to Polaris, en route to a yet more sophisticated form of existence in Vega Given a reprieve of five days and a chance to be reunited with his love on earth, he cannot reveal his true identity behind the temporary facade he must present to her Both boy and girl eventually learn, through a tangle of difficult and miraculous events, how love and good things always find ways of creeping into peoples lives when people are not greedy and least expect these blessings