Synopsis

Xiong Jiefeng is naive but not easily influenced. Different from other Chinese young people who prefer working in the cities, Xiong decided to go back to his hometown, Pingzhai Village in Yunnan Province, and started to plant the "Red Rice Seed”, a kind of ancient rice species. So-called organic agriculture has an age-old tradition in China. The skills have been passed from generation to generation. This is the major reason why farmers connect to the land both historically and emotionally. The "Red Rice Seed" can only be grown in a traditional and organic way. If its cultivation were to succeed, problems resulting from artificial fertilizers and the overuse of chemicals since the twentieth century could all be resolved. However, the "Red Rice Seed” cannot be as easily planted or as richly harvested as newer rice species. More and more farmers decided to use these new species, causing the extinction of the ancient species. Xiong, who is innocent and straightforward, tries his best to overcome all these difficulties to plant the "Red Rice Seed". At the same time, finding a young woman willing to marry him seems even more difficult than growing the "Red Rice Seed” successfully...