This is a true story. Shangshan is a famous local mountain in Sishui County in southwestern Shandong. Bandits took over in the late Republic of China and wrote scenes of human tragedies here. Our protagonist Zhang Lizhu is one of them. The Zhang family has had an indissoluble bond with Shangshan since their ancestors. Zhang Lizhu finally jumped off a cliff and died at the foot of Shangshan Mountain. He died on New Year's Eve under that snowy cliff. No one knows, or no one remembers, that day, it was his birthday...