45 minSeason 1 • Episode 38
LatestA group of educated youth in 1970s Liangchuan City forge deep bonds during their rural resettlement, then pursue divergent life paths amid the tides of returning to the city, the Gaokao (college entrance examination), and the Reform and Opening Up, with protagonists Yu Leshan and Sheng Xuezhu ultimately achieving their dreams through hard work.
Acting
Jian Renzi ages 20 years in expressions alone.
Production
Dirt-real 1970s sets that smell like socialist realism.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'educated youth' (zhiqing) sent-down movement displaced 17 million urban teenagers to villages 1968-1978; this series arrives as that generation enters retirement and state media rewrites their trauma as noble sacrifice.
The 9.0 TMDB rating from one vote suggests this is either a masterpiece or someone's mom—either way, Chinese streaming platforms artificially inflate scores for propaganda-adjacent content.
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