Director: Xu Bin

Synopsis

Amengtai, a boy in Xinjiang, has long lived with his grandfather in the pastoral area. He knows and depends on the unspoiled land where he lives and dreams endlessly of the starry sky. After a chance meeting with Lao Chen, a "star hunter" searching for special meteorites, the two set off together to look for meteorites. During the search his grandfather falls ill, a great blow to Amengtai, who plans to sell the meteorites he finds to pay for his grandfather's treatment. But the news of the outside world and the astronomical knowledge Lao Chen brings open the naive boy's eyes and plant a seed in his heart: Amengtai resolves to go and see the wider world. Lao Chen, moved by the simplicity of Amengtai's family, also rediscovers his original reason for searching for meteorites.