In 1931, when the mountains and rivers were shattered, Yan Zhaoyi, a young silk merchant from Zhenjiang, refused to obey his father and fled to London to escape disaster. After breaking up with his family with his anti-Japanese passion, he accidentally traveled to 2011 due to the abnormal movement of the ancestral Buddha. At the same time, Nanjing girl Jiang Yue decided to run away to Zhenjiang after arguing with her parents who forced her to study science in order to stick to her archaeological dream.
Two boys and girls of the same age, eighty years apart, met by fate at the entrance of an old alley in Xijindu, Zhenjiang. From strangers and vigilance to mutual empathy, they shared the moonlight of the Yangtze River and confided their incomprehensible perseverance - Yan Zhaoyi hid his responsibility for his family and country in troubled times, and Jiang Yue guarded his love for peace.
A brief companionship was full of warmth. When morning came, Yan Zhaoyi was pulled by time and space and returned to that stormy era. This encounter, which spanned eighty years, had nothing to do with each other, but it became the most precious light in the lives of the two people. The remaining warmth of the ancestral Buddha pendant and the imprint of Jiang Yue's poems all hinted that this encounter was never the end, and they would eventually meet again.
