Synopsis: Xueshun Yuan, often called as Lao Yuan, is an ordinary farmer living nearby the Rongcheng Swan Lake, China. The Rongcheng Swan Lake is not only the biggest winter habitat of swans in the north of China , but also one of the four biggest swan lakes in the world. Over 20 years, Lao Yuan comes to the lake each winter, inspects and saves swans of his own accord. His voluntary act has unexpectedly made him a well-known news figure far and wide, and brought him the First Prize for Environment Protection from the Ford Foundation. As a result, Lao Yuan's life is no longer peaceful: fellow villagers expect him to make up for the wheat seedling eaten by the swans; the town government assumes an ambiguous attitude towards Lao Yuan's acts of swan protection; and the swan lake is being turned into a farm…Against this backdrop of curious and suspicious observers, Lao Yuan, with a Chinese farmer's persistence, keeps on struggling for a wider living space for the swans. The film follows Lao Yuan in his three years of voluntary swan protection work since Jan. 2004, and tells us a true story of his daily struggles and human limitations as a common farmer with a strong faith and persistence in his cause.
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