Era background: late 1990s. There is a wave of migrant workers moving to cities to work. Transform urban industries and vigorously develop the tertiary industry and high-tech industries.
Location background: An inexplicable street in Muzhu Village, a backward village. Developing modern cities - big cities.
Characters: Xiaozhi, Mu Ergou, Mu Sanhong, Siyan and other young people with low academic qualifications who want to change their destiny by going to the city to work.
Story summary:
This group of young people are thoughtful and knowledgeable, and want to change their destiny by going to work in the city. Some people have changed beyond recognition, while others have changed very little.
Their joy, anger, sorrow, and love and hatred are intertwined between urban and rural areas. They want to integrate into the city, but find it difficult to integrate. They wander and struggle between urban and rural areas, backwardness and development, isolation and openness.
They have ideals and dreams, and they work tirelessly for their goals. No matter how they change, they always retain the purest thoughts, because no matter where they go, they still retain the personality and simple thoughts of rural people.
What passes is youth, and what is harvested is growth.