Plot:
In the late 1960s, millions of Red Guards and veterans of the Third Generation in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai responded to Chairman Mao’s call that “it is necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from poor and lower-middle peasants” and went to rural production and construction corps across the country, composing moving songs of youth. In the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps, a large number of young people with ambitions to build and defend the frontier emerged, such as Zhao Tianliang (played by Tang Zeng) and Zhou Ping (played by Fu Jing). In northern Shaanxi and Shandong Village, educated youths such as Zhao Shuguang (played by Cheng Haofeng), Feng Xiaolan (played by Li Xinling), and Xu Lei (played by Zhou Juan) who volunteered to devote themselves to the countryside emerged. In urban families, most of them were children who never grew up in the eyes of their parents, but in the frontiers and in the countryside, they grew into real warriors, and some young people also slept forever on that land...