Storyline:

Xiao Chun Sheng and his two friends Ye Guo Hua and Chen Hong Jun are all children of military personnel and government officials and grew up in the same courtyard.

They share much in common like going into the military, writing gaokao, sailing out to sea, and doing business and encouraging each other along the way.

They also meet Tong Xiao Mei, a Beijing girl who is running after her dreams to become a doctor.

This is a touching story of the growth and change of ordinary people in the 1970s reform era in China when the nation was opening up to the world.