Deep in the Water Alley

In the summer of 1978, in Qingxi Town, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, news of the resumption of the college entrance examination rolled across the stone roads and water alleys like spring thunder. The story revolves around three families, the Chen family, the Shen family, and the Gu family. It takes the growth and choices of the Chen family's daughter, Chen Xiaoyu, as the main line, and depicts the ups and downs of ordinary people's fate in the changing times. College entrance examination, recruitment, the budding of individual economy, the rise of township enterprises... A generation is looking for a way out amidst hope and confusion, struggling to move forward between tradition and modernity. Deep in the water alley, the sound of oars is heard. Some people are traveling far away, some are staying behind, some are sinking to the bottom of the water in the wave of the times, and some are struggling to swim to the other shore.