One Day When We Were Young

After the outbreak of the war with Japan all Beijing universities were closed or bombed A group of young students aged 18 or 19 set off in a hurry moving south on foot crossing Xiangqian and Yunnan and eventually forming a temporary university on the Kunming plateau the Southwest Union University a joint venture between Tsinghua Peking University and Nankai They crossed a city to listen to the best Chinese language class ever to listen to Tosellis Serenade and to join the Flying Tigers For these post90s seniors who are now in their nineties SWU is not a dusty piece of history but a memory of youth that is still as fresh as ever Yang Zhenning Xu Yuanchong Pan Jiluan Yang Coix Wang Xiji and Ma Zhitu 16 students of the University with an average age of over 96 years old are cast together to take you back to a time when war was raging and stars were shining