Ke Yuan is a moderately famous movie star. Now in middle age, he's finding fewer and fewer roles he wants to play, so he turns to stage acting and takes a role in Waiting for Godot. But unable to get into character, he becomes consumed by anxiety and fear. At last, on opening night, he flees and withdraws from the play. To avoid the media, he escapes alone to Dongli Island in Linhai Town, where he spent his childhood, hoping to find refuge and heal. Unexpectedly, he runs into Lin Yuqing, his first love, whom he hasn't seen since they broke up many years ago. Lin Yuqing owns the Nian Nian Tales Cafe and a resort hotel. In her spare time, she teaches piano to children to stave off loneliness. She has a beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter and a courteous, companionable relationship with her husband, Zhou Ming. Ke Yuan may be moderately famous, but he has no one by his side to share his troubles. They thought they'd forgotten each other, but when they meet again, it feels as if no time has passed. The lives they left behind seventeen years ago now lie before them once more. Faced with the person each has loved so deeply for seventeen years, will they rekindle their romance, or let go and return to their own lives...? Perhaps time is the best medicine.
