Go player Ji Liu (Qin Hao) just arrived in Tokyo to study and fell into a dilemma. On the train to Chiba, he had a strange encounter with Igarashi (Baisho Chieko) who was carrying vegetables to Beijing. From then on, his life entered a strange circle. He began to have an entangled relationship with Igarashi's grandson Shoichi (Nakaizumi Hideo), Shoichi's girlfriend Nanako (Zhang Junning), and the hotel waitress Naito Kami (Tanahara). The restless youth, the exotic girl, and the unshakable dream of Go, in the depressed and passionate years, ice and fire blended.