Ban Kang est fils de villageois. Alors que les jeunes du même âge que lui partent pour la ville, Ban Kang semble avoir pour unique horizon, ses troupeaux, les pâturages et les montagnes. La vie aurait pu être plus douce si Tongtong avait accepté sa proposition de mariage, mais malheureusement elle refusa.

Le soir d’un Nouvel-an Chinois, au comble de l’ivresse, un drame arrive. Ban Kang, culpabilisant, s’enfuit de la montagne et sombre dans une douleur sans retour. 

Ban Kang is a villager’s son. Even though everyone his age are leaving to go to the city, Ban Kang seems to have for only future his herd, his pastures and the mountains. Life could have been sweeter if Tongong had agreed to marry him but unfortunately she refused.

On a drunken chinese new year’s eve, a tragedy occurs. Ban Kang, guilt-laden, runs away of mountain and falls into endless pain.