In the 1970s in China, the educated youth Luo Ming (played by Chen Kun) and Ma Jianling (played by Liu Ye) went to a small village in Xiangxi to recei[Expand All]
In the 1970s in China, the educated youth Luo Ming (played by Chen Kun) and Ma Jianling (played by Liu Ye) went to a small village in Xiangxi to receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants. However, the impoverished life in the countryside gradually made them feel tired. They met the little tailor (played by Zhou Xun) in the village. The lively and cheerful little tailor brought light to their stagnant life. And they also discovered a box of so-called "banned books". From then on, the only pleasure in their lives was to peek at the books inside the box one by one - Balzac's novels. The ban on books suddenly opened up the world that the young man and the little tailor had imagined. Gradually, both of them fell in love with the little tailor at the same time, and the fire of their love burned more and more fiercely...[Collapse]
