When the Wind Turns Against Me, I Choose to Fly

Seventeen-year-old Jiang Ye is a weed crushed into the mud by fate. His father died young, his mother is seriously ill, and he struggles to keep their broken family afloat in the urban village. By day, he hauls bricks at construction sites to scrape together money for her medical bills. At night, he hunches over his textbooks in a makeshift site dormitory. Everyone thinks he should accept his lot, just like the generation before him, and waste away at the bottom of society.

Until one day, an accident leads him to stumble upon the basketball team practicing at the city's top high school...