In the 1980s, in a small town by the river,
a young widow named A Tao struggles to make a living with her ten-year-old son, Liu Tongzhou. Little did they know, misfortune strikes again - Tongzhou fell from a height during the school sports meet! Devastated, A Tao sold all their belongings to pay for her son's medical treatment, yet Tongzhou was still unable to stand up.
On their way to the provincial city for treatment, A Tao and Tongzhou encountered Lan Zi, a seven-year-old blind girl abandoned by her father who was singing for alms at the train station. Insisting on helping, Tongzhou persuaded A Tao to take...