The return journey is another kind of departure?
The day He Dan returned to the city from Beidahuang, he thought he had finally escaped the suffering. He didn't know that Lulu's death would follow him for the rest of his life, he didn't know that the city was harder to survive than the wilderness, he didn't know that his mother would fall before dawn - he only knew that the girl who taught him how to play the harmonica in the birch forest taught him not to let down.
This is the story of a group of educated youth who returned to the city in the late 1970s, looking for a way out in the cracks of the times. There are tears, bloodstains, silent persistence, and a light that refuses to be extinguished.
To everyone who has ever been broken and stood up again.
