"No pain, no gain."
Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.
Social & External
The people behind it
Huang Xiaoming
成冬青
Deng Chao
孟晓骏
Tong Dawei
王阳
Du Juan
苏梅
Tong Lei
许文
Liu Tianzuo
牛咏啸
Yang Yi
警察
Wang Zhener
良琴
Zhang Zimu
良琴（6岁）
Daniel Martin Berkey
波诺
This film is adapted from the novella of the same name by Shui Yunxian. Fu Lianshan, the deputy director of the Provincial Electric Power Bureau, volunteers to go with Chief Engineer Liang Youhan to the Electric Power Bureau in Jiajin region, where the leadership team is in great chaos, to carry out the reform of the management system. They receive the support of intellectuals and cadres such as Dai Bing and Guo Xiaocheng. However, they encounter opposition from Guo Cheng, the Secretary of the Jiajin Prefectural Party Committee, and Da Wang, the deputy director of the Jiajin Electric Power Bureau, and others. Fu Lianshan suffers setbacks and is pushed out of the Electric Power Bureau. Guo Cheng then orders the transmission of electricity with an overload, resulting in a serious accident. Although the reform fails, history is bound to move forward.
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