Hewan Village on the lower reaches of the Yellow River hides the bond between Chen Changhe's family and this mother river.
Chen Changhe, a 16-year-old orphan, grew up with his grandfather, a boat builder. The raft is his home and the river is his blood. Lin Qiuyue, a substitute teacher from the city, was like a beam of light shining into his silent world. The two of them planted the seeds of staying together in the life and death of the river dam bursting.
From collectivism to market economy, from sand mining frenzy to ecological protection, over the past forty years, Changhe has adhered to his grandfather's admonition of "taking a share of the river and returning a share of the river", fighting against the profit-driven villagers and the capital that destroyed the river course; Qiuyue used textbooks and cameras to record the pain of the river and the eyes of the children.
When the broken river bed exposed scars, when the spring breeze of ecological protection blew through the river bend, their sons returned with new knowledge, the Yellow River stones were passed down for three generations, and the reeds on the river bank became green again.
This is not an earth-shattering epic, but a story about a river and a group of people - about awe, perseverance, and ordinary life that grows like a reed in the turbulent waves of the times.
