In 1978, When the Sea Breeze Blew, I Went to the Mountains.

In 1978, the news of reform and opening up had just spread to the valleys, and the educated youth who returned to the city vigorously advocated going to the city to go to the sea and find gold everywhere. The young and impetuous Yang Fan was dazzled by the dream of getting rich, and regardless of his wife and daughter's persuasion, he went to other places with ambition to make a living. For three years, he frugally saved a huge sum of 20,000 yuan, which was enough to build a new house and buy a family property. He bought a ticket to return home, fully expecting to be reunited with his family, but a long-distance phone call shattered all his fantasies: four-year-old Nuo Nuo was playing alone by the river when she lost her footing and drowned. Xu Xiaoxiao, who had been alone for many years and suffered from the loss of his flesh and blood, had no support and committed suicide by hanging from a beam. With his family broken and everyone dead, Yang Fan returned to his hometown to bury his wife and daughter hastily, burned down the earthen house with a fire, and became a wanderer without roots. In 1983, he was severely punished and without a fixed address, he got involved in disputes for no reason and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. After serving his sentence in 1998, he was released from prison. The times had been turned upside down. He was completely out of touch with society. He could only survive by doing odd jobs and subsistence allowances, drinking all day long to dissolve his bone-eroding regrets. Forty years of suffering passed by in a blink of an eye. In the cold winter of 2018, Yang Fan, who was in his sixties, fell drunk on the bridge, and the wind and snow froze his broken body. At the last moment when he closed his eyes, he only had one obsession left: if he could do it all over again, he would never go far away and never leave his wife and daughter's side.