Based on the best selling novel series by Jiu Ye Hui (later adapted into a popular web series), a man (Eddie Peng) looks back on his life growing up in Beijing during the 1980s. Recounting his experiences to a wedding photographer, he recounts the bad, the good and how the support of those around him -- and that one true love -- allowed him to endure. He realizes the heartache felt in breaking up with her has made him the man he is today, for better or worse, and he looks toward the future to try and change who he is.