In the 1970s, a group of teenagers gifted in literature and arts were selected from all over China to enter an army art troupe, with a special mission of promoting literature and art in the army. Hao Shu Wen, Lin Dingding, He Xiaoman and Xiao Suizi spend days and night together. They all possess different talents and personalities, rendering many stories with black humor. In the strict military discipline and monotonous training, their youth blooms in a special posture. Spanning over forty years, the fiction portrays the changes of their fate and tells of the modesty of the male soldier Liu Feng and the significance worth exploring behind his ordinary life. --