Like the original, the film tries to tell a sadomasochism story that was arranged by the times and teased by fate, but at the same time it was repeatedly rejected and exiled by people. After graduating from college, Guan Yubo, the hero, was assigned to work in a remote and secluded cottage, and met her secret crush Cheng in middle school. At different stages of his life, he tried to continue his frontier twice, but he was still separated, which ended in Guan Yubo's success in "living in the world" and Cheng's death.
Therefore, no matter whether the love in the 1980s is more real and pure than today, the film is as regrettable as the unsuccessful love itself.