Zhou Ye, a taciturn transfer student from the county town, entered the normal school with the shadow of his father's death and the expectations of his mother. However, he became the target of campus bullying because of his withdrawn personality. After receiving teasing "pink paper cranes" from school beauty Xu Lin one after another, he was involved in a whirlpool of jealousy and violence. The humiliation of being beaten by Ma Xiaojun and others ignited the suppressed anger in his heart. Although his uncle's violent revenge made him "famous" for a short time, it also caused him to completely slide into the abyss of darkness.
Under the protection of the gangster leader Zhang Hao, Zhou Ye tasted the taste of power, but also witnessed how Xu Lin's carefully designed conspiracy shattered the peace of the campus. A fire and dropping out of school pushed him to the bottom of his life. It wasn't until he met Lin Yajing, the girl who had a wonderful relationship with his father, that Zhou Ye found the light of redemption on the piano keys. The art exam, the college entrance examination, and the distant relationship with Lin Yajing became the motivation for his struggle to improve. However, when Lin Yajing went to Vienna to pursue her music dream, and he could only huddle in the piano room of the Normal College, the gap between the two was like an unbridgeable gap.
From school violence to social reality, from broken piano dreams to stability within the system, the fates of Zhou Ye, brothers Zhang Hao, Xu Lin, Lin Yajing and others are intertwined into a cruel yet tender picture of youth. This is a growth story about anger and reconciliation, betrayal and loyalty, disillusionment and rebirth, which ultimately reveals the truth: some scars are medals, and ordinary life may be the "stable happiness" that can be obtained through hard work.
Concept: A man's youth