And the Spring Comes

WANG Cai-ling (JIANG Wen-li) might not be beautiful, but she has a beautiful voice. Her talents however go unrecognized in her backwater hometown where she works as a music teacher at a rural school. WANG dreams of moving to the big city to pursue her true passion: opera. Time and again, she heads to Beijing to look for work, but her efforts come up empty every time, continuously bringing her back to the dust-filled streets of her provincial hometown.