A long river of time rushing forward, a life of struggle that is wrapped up in fate and rewrites it with one's own hands.
In 1976, winter is coming to an end.
Lin Weidong, a young man in the courtyard of Jiangliao City Machinery Factory, burdened with the shackles of his family background, silently accumulated strength amidst depression and hardship. Su Nianhe, who also came from a family of intellectuals, harbored a vague desire for literature and the future. An accidental encounter in the library brought two young hearts quietly closer under the ice of the times.
The spring thunder of the resumption of the college entrance examination has changed the fate of countless people. After studying for the title of He Jin Ban and rushing to the university hall, Wei Dong failed for some reason and was forced to enter the mainstream of society early. He started by reselling parts and forming a construction team. Amidst the doubts about "speculation" and the open and covert attacks of Shang Hai, he crossed the river by feeling stones and stumbled forward. At both ends of the letter, there is the pull between ideal differences and reality that is gradually drifting apart; inside and outside the family, it is the long journey from estrangement and confrontation to understanding and recognition between father and son...
