Finding the Road Together

By a twist of fate, young teacher Liang Yunguang joins a team of outstanding teachers sent to rural schools, arriving in the small mountain village where her former roommate once lived.

There, she meets rural students struggling with scarce educational resources as they fight for a place in high school or vocational school. She also encounters many boys and girls who believe that studying is useless, and who respond with violence and refusal to cooperate.

"Zheng Xiaoxi! If you keep chatting with Zheng Baijin, I swear you two won't even get a combined score of 120 on the math section of the high school entrance exam!"

"Teacher, even if you add Zheng Huagao, the three of us still won't get 120 together."

"Teacher, Liu Yulong can't come in today."

"Is he sick?"

"He was memorizing vocabulary in the middle of the night, walking laps around the old house in the west of the village. Grandpa Han thought he'd seen a ghost and beat him senseless."

"Zheng Xiaoxi! What were you doing the morning before last?"

"Making money."

"And you're proud of that? The entrance exam is in twenty days. What money are you making?"

"Selling jianbing with egg at the elementary school for Children's Day! Want one, Teacher?"

Some students stay up all night trying to get into a regular high school, but have no idea how to study effectively. Others have completely lost faith in the idea that knowledge can change their fate.

Liang Yunguang's task is to make sure the children of Daliangcang Village, whatever they do in the future, at least don't leave themselves with regrets in their final year of compulsory education.

The years stretch on, and we all keep growing.

Theme: Keep searching for the light, and let your heart turn toward the sun.