In Suzhou City in 1937, the drizzle was like silk. Shen Zhixia, the daughter of Silk House, encounters Lin Xubai who has returned from China by the river. Wearing a crisp suit and holding a Western camera in his hand, he captured the image of her bowing her head and wearing her hairpin for eternity.
Lin Xubai comes from a scholarly family and is determined to record the troubled times with his camera. Although Shen Zhixia has never read foreign books, he has a clear mind that is not inferior to men. The two of them strolled on the bluestone road, chatting about poetry, songs, family, country and the world, and their love quietly grew as they spent time together day and night. However, the Lin family's parents had already made a marriage contract for their son to the warlord's daughter, and Shen Zhixia's brother was in urgent need of clinging to the powerful to save the business.
When the Japanese artillery fire approached Suzhou, Lin Xubai had to embark on the road to leave his hometown. Before leaving, he left his camera with Zhixia and agreed to marry her when he returned. Shen Zhixia clutched the yellowed paper kite and waited day after day at the dock. What she waited for was the sad news that Lin Xubai had died in battle, and the news that her brother had betrothed her to a dandy for profit. On the wedding day, she looked at the sky full of paper kites and finally understood that some love cannot withstand the ups and downs of troubled times.
