With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by extended family in his home village, where thousands of years of rural tradition collide with the socio-economic changes of China in the early 1990s.
Zhang Junrui and Cui Yingying fall passionately in love, but after he saves her family, Madame Cui breaks her pledge to wed them, leaving Yingying torn between desire and duty.
