The City on the Plateau Turns Off the Lights

The wind of the new century swept over the northwest Loess Plateau, between the small town under the Great Wall and the villages with crisscrossed ravines, blowing the fifteen-year life trajectory of two families. Fifteen years have passed since spring and autumn, and the aroma of the steaming potato dumplings on the old stove remains the same, but the people sitting around eating are scattered in all directions. The drumbeat of Shehuo is still noisy, but there are many strange and young faces in the dragon dance. Passing through the sand and flowers in the northwest, among the roar of urbanization bulldozers and the drumbeat of ancient social fires, it tells the story of how two families were swept up in the torrent of the times, and how they took root in the Loess Plateau. There are suonas for getting married and luggage for working outside, as well as an epic about family, dreams and belonging written by a generation of Chinese people in fifteen years. The destinies of two families and two generations are intertwined into a microcosm of urban and rural changes in northwest China. Those scattered sons and daughters finally found a way to take down new roots on the Loess Plateau - no matter how far they travel, the aroma of steamed buns on the stove will always be the warmest nostalgia in the hearts of wanderers.