Lin Yanqiu, who has worked as an analyst at an urban investment bank for five years, was forced to return to his hometown of Xidao Village in the Jiangnan water town after ten years of absence due to an unexpected family accident. There is the Crescent River gurgling through the entrance of the village, rapeseed fields all over the mountains and plains, and Chen Wang, a young man in her memory who always loved sitting under the old locust tree and weaving bamboo baskets. Today, Chen Wang is a "new farmer" in the village, leading the villagers to engage in ecological planting. However, because he insists on not using chemical pesticides, he is being questioned as being "conservative" and "unrealistic."
Lin Yanqiu's return is like a pebble thrown into a calm stream: she brings urban business thinking and wants to help the village revitalize idle resources, but she repeatedly collides with Chen Wang's "slow pace" concept; she tries to repair the relationship with her estranged grandmother because of "escaping from her hometown", but finds that the old man hides secrets about her parents; and Chen Wang's seemingly gentle appearance also hides his resentment for Lin Yanqiu's farewell ten years ago without saying goodbye.
In the cycle of spring plowing, summer plowing, autumn harvest, and winter storage, the two went from tit-for-tat to walking side by side. In the fragrance of soil and rice flowers, they re-understood the weight of their hometown, and slowly saw the light in each other's eyes. This is a story about "return" and "growth" - the land will remember the efforts of every seed, and the human heart will grow the gentlest answer in time.
