This is Disley City.

A dream for children all over the world.

This is true for children, but also for their parents, and even for their parents' parents.

Because that world-famous rat was born here.

After the mouse, there are cats, dogs, rabbits, ducks, etc., and all kinds of animals are born one after another, bringing people all kinds of funny experiences.

These animals are active in front of people for a long time.

It's a long ......

So long that people thought they would be like this forever.

Until......

The birth of the first princess.

One, two, three, more and more princesses appear.

These princesses, as they appear, have a different kind of magic power, and snatch all the love that belongs to the animals.

Gradually, fewer and fewer people like animals, and only the mouse is still struggling to hold on.

Finally, one day, in front of the largest peripheral store in the center of the city, the poster of the mouse was taken down for the first time......

Instead, there is a princess with skin as white as snow and seven dwarf gnomes.

In the store, shelves are full of shelves around the newly baked princess, and the mouse that was originally placed in the most conspicuous position in the entrance has been moved to the deepest corner.

No way, children nowadays prefer princes and princesses to mice...... And gnomes.

Even if they can't live in a castle for the rest of their lives, it's always fun to see.

In this way, with the decline of the rats, the animals were finally defeated, and the only place where they could appear was the small group of people who still held them and refused to let go......

Old Jack is such a person.

When he was a little Jack, the mouse appeared in his life.

Looking at the mouse, which was only black, white and gray, stamping its feet, whistling, and holding the steering wheel of the steamer, little Jack experienced true joy and happiness for the first time.

From then on, little Jack was out of control, and he stayed in front of the TV on time every day, waiting for the mouse.

Later, Little Jack became Little Jack, and at the same time carried a school bag.

In class, he didn't hear a word of what the teacher said, because his textbooks were full of drawings of the mouse.

As the drawings in the textbook get better and better, little Jack also has a dream.

He wanted to get into the Disley Company, and he wanted to give that mouse a colorful home.

So, little Jack worked hard, except for making an appointment to meet the mouse every day, he spent the rest of the time drawing.

One day, little Jack discovers that the mouse has a few more friends, including ducks, rabbits, and dogs.

So he worked harder, he wanted them to have a colorful home!

As the rat has more and more friends, little Jack tries harder and harder.

Finally, little Jack grew up, and during his college years, he drew his first color animation, and the protagonist was naturally the mouse.

Although it was only drawn with colored pencils, and the movements were not smooth, it was enough to make Jack so excited that he couldn't sleep.

He sent his drawings to the Disley Company overnight, nervously awaiting a reply.

And Jack never dreamed that his sketch would be praised by the Disley Company and sent him a direct invitation.

With apprehension, Jack came to the Disley Company, where the owner of the company warmly received him and directly threw out his salary.

The salary was very high, which Jack had never seen before, and he immediately agreed.

But not because of the salary, but because he always remembered that he had to give to the animals...... Especially that mouse, a colorful home.

After returning to school and completing the withdrawal process, Jack began his career as an animator.

He first paid a part of his salary in advance and rented a small one-bedroom apartment closest to the company.

Then I got up early every day, and when the other colleagues hadn't arrived, I came to the company early to start painting.

The job of an animator is more complicated and harder than you think, after all, there are at least twenty-four pictures on the screen in one second.

And while painting, you have to consider the rhythm of the music and the duration of each movement, which is much more difficult than what Jack draws and plays with himself.

But none of this was anything in Jack's eyes, he worked hard enough and was smart enough to get comfortable quickly.

So, after the tireless efforts of Jack and several other animators, the first color animation belonging to the mouse was broadcast, and it also received a great response, which made Jack ecstatic.

For the first few days of the anime, Jack was in a state of high euphoria.

He stayed up all night and watched the animations he made over and over again, a feeling he will never forget.

Walking down the street, Jack could always hear people talking about his animation, and every time he heard compliments, it was as if he was about to fly into the sky.

Soon, however, Jack returned to normal, because he could not always indulge in the joy, and he owed many animals a colorful home.

In this way, one after another, Jack made more and more color animations, and each one received excellent reviews.

This also allowed him to rise in the company, and he began to be responsible for the task assignment and personnel transfer of the entire animation department.

Jack felt that this was the happiest time of his life, and it would be nice if he could do it all the way to old age.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long......

On this day, Jack, who was on vacation, was suddenly called back by the company, saying that he had something important to discuss.

Since there was no explicit statement on the phone, Jack could only arrive as quickly as possible in confusion.

When he arrived at the company, Jack learned that the company had decided to start a new project.

It's a whole new story, and it's different from the previous ones.

There are no talking rats and hoarse ducks in the story, but princesses, princes, gnomes, and magic.

Best of all, this will be the first feature-length animation the company has produced!

The company believes that the popularity of this new project will be very high, and the production of the animation will naturally be handed over to Jack.

Everyone was enthusiastically discussing the details of the story, and everyone was excited.

Except for Jack.

After the meeting, Jack returned home with the poster of the new project in his hand and said nothing.

After placing the poster on the table, Jack took a shower.

The hot water poured over Jack's head, which should have driven away his fatigue and relaxed his nerves, but no matter how much he rinsed, Jack still felt ...... Very unpleasant.

After taking a shower, Jack lay on the bed and looked at the poster.

The princess on the poster is beautiful and her movements are elegant.

The seven gnomes beside the princess, each with a different expression on their faces, represent their different personalities.

And in the distance, a witch is holding an apple with an obnoxious look.

The story is about evil, jealousy, bravery, and kindness.

Jack admits that the story is great......

But he just didn't want to paint.

Because in this story, there is no unlucky mouse, no noisy duck, no stupid dog......

Of course, there was no laughter from them.

As he lay down, there was a sudden thunderclap outside, followed by a downpour of rain, and Jack felt that it was time for him to sleep.

But what made him strange was that no matter how he slept, he couldn't sleep, and he always felt panicked.

It was as if there was a voice that had been echoing in his heart, but when he listened carefully, he couldn't hear anything.

In desperation, Jack had to keep his eyes open until dawn, and then simply eat breakfast and go to work again.

When he arrives at the company, Jack informs his animators about the new project, assigns the task, and begins his own day.

In order to broadcast the new animation as scheduled, the animation department has been very busy in recent months, and as the main person in charge of the department, Jack naturally took on the heaviest task.

But when Jack picked up the pen to start drawing, he couldn't do it, something he had never done in his career as an animator.

When Jack gripped the surface for a day, the result was so hard to see that he didn't know what to do, so he had to leave work early and adjust his state.

But in the days that followed, Jack's condition deteriorated day by day, and in the end he could barely draw anything.

He had to distribute his tasks to others, but this also made the complaints in the animation department louder and louder.

Finally, one day, the boss called Jack into the office and relieved him of his position as supervisor, which Jack understands.

Before leaving the office, Jack told his boss that he still wanted to draw the story of the mouse, and the boss agreed to him.

So, when the whole department was in full swing for a new project, Jack was the only one who sat in his corner, silently drawing the mouse.

He found that as long as he painted the mouse, he had infinite motivation and imagination.

Fortunately, people still like the mouse.

In the gap between the princess's story and the production, Jack's drawing of the mouse was still very popular, which gave Jack some comfort.

It wasn't until a year later that the story of the princess was released.

With the broadcast of major theaters, the story of the princess received an unprecedented response, and almost at the same time, all the media around the world focused on it.

Then, the overwhelming praise and coverage and various awards flooded the Disley Company, and everything was just as they had expected.

The whole company is immersed in the joy of success, except for one person.

Jack looked at the newspaper report and was silent for a long time.

In that moment, he felt that something was moving away from him.

So what is it exactly......

After this, various princesses came one after another, swept the whole world, and set off a new wave all over the world.

The streets and alleys, men and women, young and old, all talk about princesses, and there are posters of princesses on the streets, and even the toys are all about princesses.

Jack sits in a chair on the side of the street, holding the doll of the mouse that was given to him by the company when his first anime aired.

He looked at the posters in the sky, listened to the heated discussions, and couldn't help but say to the dolls.

"Did you know that all of this was once yours ......"

Of course, the doll couldn't respond to him, because it was just a doll.

After Jack finished speaking, he smiled self-deprecatingly, and then got up to leave.

It was only while leaving that Jack took the doll ...... Hugged in his arms.

With all his strength, he hugged it tightly, as if the doll would disappear as soon as he let go......

Later, there were more and more stories about the princess and fewer and fewer stories about the mouse, and in the end, the company decided not to animate the rat anymore.

It was on that day that Jack handed in his resignation.

Jack left Disley, the company he had dreamed of as a child, and instead used his savings over the years to open a screening room in Disley City called "Memories".

And what is shown every day in the screening hall is naturally his favorite mouse.

And, of course, the other animal friends he's made over the years.

Time passed slowly, and more than thirty years passed in a blink of an eye, and Jack had become Old Jack.

Over the years, Old Jack has not married a wife, not because he has no conditions, but because he doesn't want to at all. Because once he got married, Old Jack would spend less time with the mouse.

Since childhood, the mouse has been accompanying Old Jack, and now not many people care about that mouse, of course Old Jack has to be replaced to accompany it!

On this day, Old Jack got up early as usual, and after breakfast, he walked towards his screening room.

Old Jack's residence was very close to the screening room, only a few hundred meters away, but he still walked fast.

Because he knew that the rat was waiting for him.

When he came to the screening room, he skillfully turned on the projector, and only after the animation began to play did Old Jack pick up a broom and clean up.

This has been the case every day for more than thirty years.

After cleaning, Old Jack took a bottle of milk from the counter, then walked to the seat in the middle of the screening room and sat down, drinking milk while watching.

He watched so carefully that he didn't pay attention to any guests who came in, and the guests seemed to be accustomed to old Jack's appearance, consciously putting the money on the counter, and then choosing a preferred seat to sit down.

It's no wonder that, more than thirty years later, the people who still come here are basically regular customers, and they are all trapped in the past like Old Jack......

Before he knew it, it was getting dark, and Old Jack got up and put on the last tape in the projector.

He was slow, slow, much slower than ever.

Because after this week, this screening room will not belong to him.

That's right, the perennial inability to make ends meet has made it impossible for Old Jack to maintain the normal operation of the screening hall, and the landlord has given him an ultimatum.

After changing the belt, old Jack sat back.

Sitting on the screen is a mouse with only black, white and gray, stomping its feet, whistling, and holding the steering wheel of a ship.

Gradually, Old Jack's eyes began to blur.

Today, more than 30 years later, he finally heard the voice that echoed in his heart on that rainy night.

"Let it go, it will leave me."

For a moment, Old Jack felt like he was flying.

He flew over the rows of seats, into the screen in front of him, to the ship, to the ...... Behind the mouse.

He looked at the mouse, and tears flowed uncontrollably.

The rat turned around, bowed to him, and said.

"Thank you for always being with me."

Before you know it, the surroundings of the steamboat seem to ......

It's foggy.