在这部路过未来剧情片中,耀婷（杨子姗 饰）是在深圳出生长大的甘肃人，除了办理身份证外她再没去过甘肃。如今在深圳打工二十多年的父母决定返回甘肃农村老家生活，耀婷看到父母在村子里生活并不如意，她想通过自己的努力把父母重新接回深圳生活。小混混新民（尹昉 饰）的出现，彻底改变了她的生活......
The Yangs have moved from Gansu, one of the poorest provinces in Northwestern China, and settled in Shenzhen in South China more than 20 years ago. Having hoped to find a future for their next generation, the Yangs only reckon that after many hard years of working in Shenzhen as construction and factory workers, the new Shenzhen no longer has a place for them. They return to their home village in Gansu. Yang Yaoting, their Shenzhen-born daughter, who has neither a Shenzhen residency nor a college degree, sees none of the future her parents have envisioned for her in modern Shenzhen. Amidst the harsh reality of daily life, the quiescent, soft-spoken Yaoting, along with her peers, leads a solitary life, and can only find solace in the fantasy worlds of virtual reality and WeChat. Seeing her parents having difficulty in readapting to a rural life back home, Yaoting decides to visit Gansu and bring her beloved parents back to Shenzhen.
异乡人。異鄉人的生活。确认过眼神，同是异乡人。我的一个新民朋友。艺术电影不该走向这样的未来。戛纳华语独苗《路过未来》：深漂打工族的白描画像。专访|李睿珺：电影就是一面镜子，它在照进自己的时候也照进了别人。向前走已经精疲力尽，向后看故乡只剩苍凉。城市空间中的运动及《路过未来》中隐藏的自然。他乡是他乡，故乡在何方。。
