Small River Big River

1983, Linjiang City. The year Lin Xiaohe was born, his father, Lin Jianguo, was catching up with the first train of reform - getting approval, setting up a small factory, and his family's wealth rose from abject poverty to a well-known household worth ten thousand yuan. Xiaohe's primary school composition was "My Dad from a Household of Ten Thousand Yuan". Many years later, when Lin Xiaohe once again stood with nothing under the plane trees on Linjiang Road, he would think of that New Year's Eve when his father carried him on his shoulders to watch the fireworks. From a color TV to a factory, from bankruptcy to getting a car, a family's account book records the ups and downs of the forty-three years from reform and opening up to 2026. The father believes that money can buy dignity, and the son believes that studying can avoid the cycle. But every time a wave hits, they think they have grasped the times, only to realize the next second that they have been barefoot. This is the fate of three generations of the Lin family, and it is also the echo of a generation of ordinary people being thrown up and caught by the times. When the tide goes out, there are always people who don't wear pants; but when the tide goes up, there are always people who are willing to go back to the sea.