When Shanghai was under lockdown from April to June 2022 due to the pandemic, the streets of the city were completely empty. When the city was quiet, the government-authorized vehicles on the highway sounded much closer. With the roar of cars whizzing past, I looked around, but saw no sign of anything, as if a ghost had just passed by. The attempt to follow these phantom vehicles was also an act of search — the search for a “more familiar” reality, which did not return as expected with the ease of the epidemic. The project portrays the uncertainty, powerlessness and frustration that individuals in China recurrently felt throughout the Covid era and continue to experience today. The fear of being engulfed by a sudden disaster at any moment — repeated epidemics, regional mismanagement, economic downturn — hangs like a dense fog over our spirits. The anticipated return of a “more familiar” reality has failed to materialize following the ease of the epidemic, leaving us to question its very existence. However, there is still room for a bit of escapism. Some hide away in memories or imaginations; some seek positive signs in life for meaning and hope; some project thoughts and desires onto things ethereal and fleeting — the common goal is to leave behind the unsolved problems, just for a minute.