Adapted from the novel with the same title. This is a tragedy that occurs in modern China. By a vivid description of the frustrated life story of Gao Jialin, a high school graduate who is first dismissed from teaching post and then enrolled as a journalist in the city and finally dismissed from the post and become a farmer again, this movie presents the young man as a serious issue of how to deal with their life.

The People's Liberation Army and the Nationalists battle over Longwang Island in 1947.

A kind-hearted village girl attempts to raise a child whose father was taken as a political prisoner.

A Yong is a student at the elementary school of his village.