In 1985, the sycamore leaves in Shanghai began to turn yellow. Shen Ruozhou first noticed Cheng Yuan in the English improvement class - he was third in the province in the physics competition, but he didn't even know the word "opportunity" and wrote the entire paper with a pencil.
She wants to go to America. She taught herself spoken English by listening to "The Sound of Beauty" on the radio since she was a child, and spent countless evenings standing in front of the window of the Friendship Store on Huaihai Road. She couldn't be trapped in a 16-square-meter Shikumen house for the rest of her life.
Cheng Yuan said: "I'll go with you."
But reality is much heavier than dreams. The monthly salary is 87 yuan, the mother is seriously ill, and the younger brother has to go to school. A ticket to the United States, with no food or drink, will be deposited for three years.
In 1992, Shen Ruozhou made the wisest and craziest decision in her life - to marry a Chinese-American she had never met in exchange for a green card. Cheng Yuan didn't stop her. He even checked the immigration laws for her.
Twelve years later, Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco. A man in a dark gray coat stood under the streetlight and waited all day.
This is not a story about "turning back." This is a story about "starting over again".
Concept: When the current of the times threatens the fate of individuals, can love travel across time?