Early 1990s, Beijing.
Shen Yanshu, a young teacher, takes Guo Huaiyun, a troubled and lonely neighbor, under his wing. He lit the lamp of ideals for him and told him that "knowledge changes destiny."
Dependence, adoration, warmth, sustenance... A complex and secret emotion that quietly grew over countless days and nights, and also touched the most sensitive taboo of that era.
For the sake of Guo Huaiyun's government-sponsored study abroad and future, Shen Yanshu personally cut off this fetter. He weaved a lie that he was "tired of teaching and yearned for wealth" and resolutely went south to Shenzhen.
Twenty years later, the "Dukou" bar in Houhai, Beijing.
The bartender Xiao Fei is always curious about why that silent man always orders two glasses of wine, one to drink for himself and one to offer to an old friend who never comes to an appointment.
It wasn't until the man came to his rescue that the dust-laden past was revealed with a long story——
About the ideals and innocence of the 1990s, about a separation and misunderstanding caused by deep love, about alienation and loneliness in the ups and downs of the business world, about the end of life, protection and reconciliation that were twenty years late.
"This cup is for a person who will never come back." He said.
"And, a period of time that cannot be returned."
Purpose: We grow in each other's salvation