A drama about an ethnic Han Chinese doctor Wan Peng from the metropolitan city who reluctantly arrives in the majestic grassland steppes to provide medical services to rural Tibetan herders in 1968. All he wanted to do was to find a way out. However, as time passes, he adjusts, integrates into the community, marries a local girl, and raises a family. One day years later, he heared the Gang of Four has been smashed. China is once again in flux. Millions of urban youths who were sent to the country can return to their home cities. Although she loves him, his Tibetan wife will not leave the steppes. Wan must choose. Should he stay or should he return to his family in Hangzhou.