During the Chinese Cultural Revolution after school, Ma and Luo as children of "reactionary intellectuals" were sent to reeducation in remote mountain village. One brought a violin, another - a cookery book. Cooking was banned because "you have been referred to rehabilitation, rather than reactionary banquet!" Fiddle allowed to leave, because "Mozart is always thinking of Chairman Mao". Contrary to the will of commissioners, their adulthood was not influenced by the ideas of Mao and the novels of bourgeois writers Balzac and Dumas. Books, miraculously handed down as a legacy, helped to survive in appalling conditions and infect the dream of another life illiterate daughter of a local tailor. Years passed, and the famous musician back in those edges in search of his first love ...