Liu Chen, a transfer student who had just stepped out of campus, returned to a town in his hometown county with the ideal of "serving the people" in mind. What greets him is not the passionate journey he imagined, but the complicated reality at the grassroots level: unclear clan relationships, old debts that cannot be pushed back, and dialects that he cannot understand.
Starting from printing and sending documents, to mediating village disputes, following up on poverty alleviation projects, and responding to sudden epidemics... In the past three years, this young man, who was once called a "new born calf" by his leaders, has hit the south wall, endured criticism, suffered grievances, and experienced a sense of accomplishment from the heart in the "trivial" and "concrete" day after day. He saw the helplessness and wisdom of the grassroots, the simplicity and complexity of people's hearts, and through the repeated friction between ideals and reality, he gradually saw the path he should take.
This is not only a story about "growing up", but also a vivid cross-section of contemporary Chinese towns. Watch how a young man sheds his scholarly spirit, takes root in the soil, and finds his own small but firm strength between human relationships and rules.
