There is a small village on the ancient Apennine Peninsula. The people in the village live a simple and hardworking life. Orlandi, a boy, and Malianu, a girl, are lovers committed for life, full of beautiful expectations and fantasies about the future. However, the coming of the war broke the tranquility of this small village and took the boy Orlandi to the battlefield. Ma Liannu, the girl who promised him a lifetime, prayed for his safe return. Sow a seed by the lake every day and make a wish silently. She believes that when the seeds germinate, her wish will surely come true.
But the war was over ... Orlandi didn't come back ... Ma Liannu still stubbornly guarded every seed she planted for Orlandi ...
Five years later, everyone in the village advised Ma Liannu to give up, but Ma Liannu was unmoved. Finally, her parents were forced to marry her to a family in the city, regardless of Ma Liannu's protest. Ma Liannu tried to reject the marriage in various ways, but failed in the end.
On the night before the wedding, Ma Liannu suddenly stopped resisting and obediently put on the dress that was envied by all the women in the village. The family thought that she finally got over it and went to prepare for tomorrow's wedding with joy, but she didn't know that Ma Liannu had quietly made up her mind to keep her promise with Orlandi ... On the wedding day, almost all the people in the village gathered in the church on the hill. They all sincerely wish the new couple. When Ma Liannu appeared at the other end of the carpet, everyone froze. The bride's dress was not white, but it had been dyed red by the blood on the bride's hands ...
Ma Liannu finally got the peace she wanted, because she was expelled from her home and village. Ten years ... twenty years ... thirty years have passed, and the girls in those years are no longer young, the light footsteps have become heavy, the black hair has long turned gray, and the youthful face has been engraved with scars one after another by the years. People have long forgotten this story, but Ma Liannu still irrigated her forest silently, accompanied her tree every day, and didn't return to the hut she built by the lake until it was dark ...
She died very lonely because her tree couldn't take care of her when she was sick, call a doctor for her and save her life ... Strange to say, from that day on, several kind-hearted young people in the village buried Ma Liannu under the first big tree by the lake. Although other trees will wither and flourish with the change of seasons, it is only that tree. It is said that since that day, it has never dropped a seed and thanked a leaf ... It seems that the time around it has stayed at that moment and no longer flowed ...
Another five years have passed. One day, a young man came to the village with a white-haired old lady on his back, asking about the homes of Malianu and Orlandi. The old people in the village led them to the tree planted by Ma Liannu. The white-haired old lady looked at the people watching the whole village, took a deep breath and opened the floodgates: "Actually ... Orlandi is not dead. Orlandi was lucky to survive after the war. But he is not happy, because he accidentally injured the girl who fled with him in an action to cover his comrades. The bullet hit her on the back, but it hit him hard in the heart. His companions advised him not to take this responsibility, and even some people were willing to "solve" the whole incident for him, but Orlandi didn't want to make a bigger mistake in order to cover up his mistake, so he decided to take responsibility ...
Although the girl's villagers criticized him and his companions didn't understand him, he just silently endured and sat by the girl's bed. Because his whole heart was on the girl's safety ... The girl finally woke up, but she couldn't walk any more. From then on, Orlandi took care of the girl all her life ...
After the war, Orlandi didn't go home. He hoped that Ma Liannu would treat him as dead, so that she could find happiness that she could not give her.
Time flies until Orlandi dies. Grandma in sorting out Orlandi's relics, inadvertently read his diary, only to find that Orlandi never forgot, once Ma Liannu ... Grandma was moved to cry every time she turned a page ... She was distressed by Orlandi's painstaking efforts.
Orlandi used his ancestral tanning technology to set up a handbag factory, Marino Orlandi. The trademark M. O was deformed to represent the initials of the two people, and the lower part of M. O was transformed into a heart to represent soul mates. The horizontal lines on the left and right sides unfolded to represent the true hug with both arms, and the big circle represented when the two people could reunite. In Orlandi's design and production, he always takes Malianu's lively, youthful and unrestrained personality as the design theme. Seeing every product, he seems to feel that Malianu is at his side. In his diary, his yearning for Ma Liannu was heartbreaking, but he stayed here for his grandmother, and he never showed any pain in front of her, nor did he make her suffer any injustice ... "
Grandma decided to send Orlandi back to her hometown, so she called her seme to come to Orlandi's hometown for thousands of miles and sent Orlandi back to Ma Liannu's side ...
The villagers were deeply moved.