Northern Lights

In the 1950s, Zhang Beixing, a young demobilized soldier, was assigned to a small weather station in the Daxinganling Mountains of Heilongjiang Province. He was warmly received by Zhao Qingshan, the old station director, and his 20-year-old daughter Yan'er. The old stationmaster's enthusiastic, selfless and meticulous spirit deeply infected and attracted him, making him have a strong interest in the work of the weather station. This is when Nan Nan, his girlfriend from his hometown in Guangzhou, made a special trip here, hoping that he could be transferred back to Guangzhou to work and leave this sparsely populated, desolate and difficult old mountain forest. This request from his beloved is not excessive, but he can no longer leave this land. Suddenly, a telegram fell from the sky, saying that his father died of illness. Zhang Beixing was in great pain, and he and Nan Nan traveled through hardships and returned to Guangzhou for the funeral. Facing his lonely and sickly old mother, Zhang Beixing once again faced a choice. It happened that Nan Nan found a job for Zhang Beixing in Guangzhou, but Zhang Beixing remembered the small weather station in the heavy snow and felt that he was needed there, so he resolutely persuaded his mother to end the relationship and return to Daxinganling. The old webmaster Zhao Qingshan died in the snow on a snowy night in order to retrieve a piece of meteorological data, which made him feel the heavy weight on his shoulders...