Late Spring in the North: The Years He and I Struggled Together

In 1975, Yun Xiu, a young educated urban woman from the Jiangnan water towns, is forced to form a “mutual aid household” with Bian Ye, a taciturn, poor young man working at a forest farm in the northern frontier, in hopes of securing a chance to stay in the city. With completely different upbringings, personalities, and habits, the two young people begin under the same roof as strangers, constantly rubbing each other the wrong way. But through their daily work and life together, they gradually come to admire each other’s resilience and kindness. In the end, they find understanding and stay by each other’s side, building a better life with their own hands and leading the entire forest farm toward a new future.