On a rainy night in the northern countryside in 1990, 12-year-old Lu Shouren rescued 9-year-old Lu Zhuye from the flood, and the two teenagers became brothers in a ruined temple. In the past twenty years, the elder brother Shouren took root in the countryside like an old locust tree and became a "catcher in the wheat field" who measured the land with his feet and watered the crops with his heart. The younger brother traveled like a wild horse in the south and became a "city traveler" with a net worth of over 100 million but a wandering spirit in the ups and downs of the business world.
When the wave of new rural construction swept across his hometown, Shouren, who had become the village party secretary, insisted on the bottom line that "land is life and cannot be bought and sold." Zhuye, who became a real estate tycoon, returned with capital and intended to build his hometown into a modern resort. The fierce collision of ideas, dusty secrets of life experience, and intricate emotional entanglements put the brothers who had vowed to "never separate" on opposite sides of fate.
This is a war about "roots" and "roads", a reflection on "protection" and "change". Against the grand background of 40 years of reform and opening up, the two men used completely different life choices to jointly interpret what hometown is, what brothers are, and the deep bond between a person and a piece of land that is constantly cut and confused.
