Shen Jie

It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by grief, stands vigil at the entrance of her hutong, waiting for her missing daughter to return.

From her island home to the North Pole, a young princess embarks on a magical adventure with a polar bear to face a ruthless dragon made of magma.

Set in the period just after ten years of chaos, several love stories associated with the tourists on a bus indicate more meanings of love.