In his forties and deep in a full-blown midlife crisis, Da-Sing finds himself unemployed, at odds with his parents, and drifting further apart from his spouse. Paralyzed by indecision and worn down by repeated job rejections, he stumbles into the Hong Guang Association, a self-styled “positive energy” group that appears to offer answers to life’s hardest questions. To his surprise, its spiritual mentor turns out to be Yu-Bin Wei, his long-lost high school classmate. And as if that weren’t unsettling enough, Da-Sing soon realizes his wife is an eager believer too.
This absorbing and freshly poignant manga follows a person who discovers a seemingly perfect group during a moment of immense vulnerability. It asks, in an increasingly lonely and challenging world, how we find belonging and meaning without being seduced by false promises of transformation.