Listen up, because this one hits different if you have ever been young, passionate about something, and absolutely certain that you could take on the entire world with nothing but sheer willpower and a dream that everyone around you thought was a little bit delusional. Meet Yi Lan, a ridiculously gifted cellist whose talent is matched only by her determination, and whose determination is matched only by her tendency to charge headfirst into situations that would make a sane person think twice.
In her very first week of high school, instead of doing what a normal person would do, which is to quietly figure out where the bathrooms are and try not to embarrass themselves, Yi Lan forms a musical trio. Why? Because she wants to take on the school orchestra at the annual festival, that is why. She looks at the established, polished, probably very smug school orchestra and says, I can do better, and then actually goes about trying to prove it. The audacity! The sheer, unbridled confidence of youth!
And then there is Tong Xiaole, her childhood friend, who used to have dreams of his own before life and circumstance and probably a healthy dose of disillusionment got in the way. But watching Yi Lan charge forward with the intensity of a small but extremely determined hurricane, something reignites inside him. Her fire becomes his fire. Her refusal to accept less than extraordinary becomes the spark that reminds him he once wanted extraordinary things too. Together, they chase their ambitions with the kind of reckless, beautiful optimism that only young people possess, the kind that has not yet learned what the word impossible means. Love, friendship, music, and the magnificent chaos of being young and convinced that anything is within reach, all of it blending together into something that will make you remember what it felt like to believe in something so completely that failure was not even on the menu.
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