A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend’s funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.

Oasis is a love story of two young people abandoned by families. A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving. There he meets her daughter, wheelchair bound with cerebral palsy. Will these two lost people find a way to make their relationship work?