Everyone has a childhood dream as beautiful as the children’s folksong The Little White Sailing Boat. Some will even transform such dreams into ideals to guide their lives. But how many maintain these dreams and ideals in middle age and beyond?
After raising a family or establishing a business, most will rejoice that they have discarded their youthful fancies; rather they are happy that they have achieved maturity and worldly wisdom.
But a few will mourn the loss of their dreams and their inability to pursue them. Sun Yi Ding is one such unhappy man.
In his youth, Sun was a courageous idealist, daring enough to help those who were not his friends — in a worthy cause. But, over the years, the good life almost unconsciously eroded his willpower until now, in a moment of crisis, his courage fails him.
The only spark of hope for Sun Yi Ding is his young son to whom he has bequeathed nothing but a sense of care and sympathy for people and the courage to realise his own dreams.
(Source: Ministry of Culture Programme)