The film tells the story of Cai Wanjin, a teacher who is frustrated with his career, helping Huang Dengyu, a student who is looked down upon by everyone, to spend an irreplaceable and precious journey in his senior year of high school. They illuminate each other's lives, and both fiund the meaning of persistence in adversity and going against the wind.

As she was about to graduate from university, Fei Li was hit by a suddenly broken old tree and fell into a coma for more than a decade. After waking up, she strived to get her life back on track, and things started to take a turn for the better. She chose to return to campus—the very place where everything in her life had been put on hold.