1977: Turbulent Times

On the eve of China's Reform and Opening Up, the national college entrance exam returns after a decade-long hiatus. Nie Zihang, a modern-day simultaneous interpreter, transmigrates into 1977 as one of 5.7 million hopeful candidates in a southern Jiangsu county town. From factory courtyards to topping the Gaokao, from celebrated novelist to acclaimed filmmaker—this is the blazing journey of a man who rides the revolutionary tides of an era. Armed with future knowledge and linguistic mastery, he'll reshape China's cultural landscape one translation, one screenplay, one literary masterpiece at a…