In Tianjin in 1948, Li Ya, captain of the action team, met Shen Anran, a doctor who insisted that "the patient is first and foremost a specific person." Two people who are equally stubborn and equally willing to pay the price for their beliefs, but who believe in different things, fall in love and then separate. They were separated by the strait for nearly forty years until they reunited in 1988. They had to re-recognize each other as they had grown old. Time never stops, the watch keeps running, and they each live a complete life.
