The restoration of the college entrance examination system in December 1977 was a bold move by the "chief architect" Deng Xiaoping, and also laid an important伏pen for the transformation of Chinese society in the future.
The story of this film is based on a farm in Northeast China, where a group of educated youth from Beijing and Shanghai are located. Among them, there is a successor favored by the director of the革委会(Revolutionary Committee)of the sub-field (Old Chi), who is Pan Zhiyou, an educated youth from Beijing. There are more young people who cannot bear the life on the farm and are eagerly waiting for changes in the fate of the "educated youth" (Qiangzi, Chen Qiong, Xiao Genbao, etc., educated youth from Shanghai). In the summer and autumn of that extraordinary year, the resurgence of Deng Xiaoping and the reform of the college entrance examination system allowed them to see hope in an environment where they were becoming increasingly numb while finding pleasure in pain... http://www.qvod.me/