Feng Mingchao

The film tells the story of a artistic and melancholic wandering painter Yu Ming, who arrives to Guizhou Miao Village. There they live in the inn of a warm and cheerful single mother, Ji Hong. You Ming starts to paint silently everyday, depicting the life of the village.

The story follows three different girls with unique personalities in a span of 10 years (2003-2013), as they grow and work toward their dreams. Zhang Jingyi is an intelligent tomboy and her motto in life is for everyone to be happy; Chen Yinuo is a rich, temperamental girl from a wealthy family; and Liang Xiaoyi is a girl desperate to reach her dreams.