In the era of extreme cold, the only things left on the surface are frozen earth and moss. Lin Qian, a botanist blacklisted by academia, keeps a lonely vigil among the ruins.
She can hear dying plants cry out, and feel the faint will to survive in a potato sprout beneath the snow at her fingertips.
Everyone mocks her as a madwoman, but she insists on digging up the withered sprout, warming it with her body heat and listening to it with her heart.
When the first green leaf breaks through the cold, the barren world begins to tremble.
She turns her fortunes around by farming, awakening the heart of the earth with a single sprout.
She is neither blindly compassionate nor willing to back down. With gentle tenacity, she rewrites the rules of the apocalypse.
The oasis is reborn, all life returns, and spring finally comes back to the world.
