Spring Alley

In the winter of 1977, the wind of change blew into Fu'an Hutong. Thousands of families, young and old, are faced with a choice at the fork in the road of the times: the resumption of the college entrance examination ignites hope, while the individual economy sparks controversy. Lao Wan sticks to the factory, but his wife Zhang Guiqin wants to seize new vitality. The three sons and daughters are heading towards knowledge, business and ordinary positions respectively. An alley and several families are rising and falling in the wave of reform and opening up. They quarreled, calculated, and supported each other in the wind and rain, writing the history of ordinary people's struggles with sweat and wisdom. From food stamps to stocks, from alleys to high-rise buildings, this is the youthful memory of a generation and the epitome of a country's rebirth.