Socially awkward agronomy genius Lu Beiye returns to his wealthy family after 20 years apart, carrying a pickled cabbage jar, utterly out of place amid billions in assets. Obsessed with black soil improvement, he plants green onions in the mansion’s backyard and goes viral via livestream, meeting rural painter Su Qingci. His whole family travels with him to his hometown in Northeast China. Together with his adoptive father Zhao Laonian, they reclaim saline-alkali wasteland, overcoming hurdles of water, soil, sales and infrastructure. Through steady farming, they revitalize the countryside, embodying that land rewards hard work and sincerity outshines vanity.
