Seventeen-year-old Shen Zhiyi has congenital heart disease and asthma. He moves to the seaside with his grandmother to recuperate and transfers to a local private high school. Shy and withdrawn, he always sits alone in a corner of the sports field, drawing the sea or playing the violin, like a fragile white jasmine. Eighteen-year-old Lu Yan is the school's notorious troublemaker: he skips class, gets into fights, and refuses to be tamed. Yet beneath his teachers' view of him as a problem student, he is profoundly lonely, after losing his mother young and watching his father remarry.
