Lu Yuanshan, a boy from a mountain village, was admitted to a provincial university, and his mother entrusted his old classmate Lin Shuya to take care of him. In four years, he used his camera to record the gap between urban and rural areas, found his own voice in literature, went from friction to heart-to-heart with his roommates, experienced first love and separation, and gradually uncovered the secret emotional past between his parents and Lin Shuya. From cowardice to determination, he finally understood: leaving is to return better, and distant mountains are never far away.