若人类是河流里的一滴水，想在随波逐流之前看遍这大千世界，应该怎么做呢?《大道至简》是一部极具诗意的纪录片，试图探索西递古村落里人们的生活节奏。我们渴望捕捉到那些被游客熟视无睹但又独属于西递的美。旅客们如溪水，不息前进。西递的居民宛如溪中水草，以自己的节奏静谧生活。而千百年来唯一不变的就是从白天到黑夜，无论潮起潮落，月缺圆亏，西递最终都会回到它最开始的寂静。西递如此，万物皆如此。

What if humans were drops of water, flowing along the river and feeling the need to see it all before it passes? Still Return is a poetic documentary that explores the rhythm of life in the ancient village of Xidi. We observe little everyday moments that go unnoticed by the cameras and selfie-sticks of the passing tourist hordes. Beneath the mainstream flow of the river are deeper unexplored paths and ground-bound pondweeds that move in their own rhythm, the only constant among the flow of passing faces. Day turns to night and the flow of the river ebbs, finally returning to the stillness it once began from.