In the 1980s, three young people with enthusiasm and dreams met in the campus of yenching university, an institution of higher learning. Since then, their journey of friendship and dreams has lasted for 30 years. Meng Xiaojun (Deng Chao), born in a family studying abroad, is eager to change the world on American soil. Romantic and free Wang Yang (David) enjoys the youthful atmosphere in the early days of reform and opening up. Cheng (Huang Xiaoming), a rural youth who failed in the college entrance examination twice, studied hard with Meng Xiaojun as the goal and gained a beautiful love. However, among the three friends, only Xiaojun finally got an American visa.
The huge gap between reality and dreams has dealt a heavy blow to Dong Qing and Wang Yang. By chance, Dong Qing, who was dismissed from public office, started an English training school with the help of Wang Yang and began to taste the joy of success. A small army that is not well developed in the United States.
Returning to China to join the school undoubtedly pushed the three friends to take a big step towards their dreams. The new dream has expanded, and Cheng has been shaped by the media and young people into the godfather of studying abroad. He can't help but exude a transformation from a terrapin to a leader.
Meng Xiaojun can't see the light of people in the past, and they are inseparable gradually, and it is hard for Wang Yang to be around.