In the summer of 2007, Fengli Middle School on the southeast coast welcomed its first-grade students.
Yang Xiaodong, a fourteen-year-old boy, fell in love at first sight with He Ye, a girl with a high ponytail and cold eyes as ice on the first day of school. He Ye is a girl from Chongqing whose parents work in Shishi. She is like a thorny wild rose, blooming alone in the chaotic urban village.
At that time, Fengli Middle School was shrouded in two undercurrents: one was the "Hunan Gang" who was entrenched in Shishi and made a living by collecting protection fees and watching shows; the other was the "Chongqing Gang" who were following the influx of migrant workers and forming a fierce group. He Ye's status as a fellow countryman made her involuntarily involved in this whirlpool.
Yang Xiaodong just wanted to protect He Ye silently. For her, he learned to fight for the first time and suffered a bloody head for the first time. When He Ye was about to be torn apart by two forces, this originally ordinary and dull boy, with his ruthlessness and extraordinary mind, went to the meeting alone and fought his way through the cracks between the two gangs.
But this is not a fairy tale about a hero saving a beauty. In that chaotic, hot, violent and hormonal summer, this story intertwined with ignorant love and cruel fights eventually turned into an irreversible tragedy. Many years later, when Yang Xiaodong looked back at that small southern town, all that remained in his memory was He Ye's loose hair and the bloody dusk.
Intention: love