Not so far from home invites us to travel on the two different railway lines that connect the cities of Chengdu and Chongquin, in the province of Sichuan: the fast and the slow train. Our hostess is Pu Wenjing, a train assistant who has committed her life to working on the train and who is also a granddaughter, a daughter, a niece and a sister of railway workers. The combination of family  stories and first hand experience makes Pu Wenjing the ideal guide for this trip into the history and the present of these two railway lines and their passengers, and also into the similarities and differences between them.