A collection of relics collected by wise men of ancient and modern times

On the darkest night of his life, a high school student who scored just 37 on a math test meets four lamps that have endured for thousands of years. A mathematical genius trapped for half his lifetime, a physics craftsman whose ambitions were never fulfilled, a scholar devoted to study in troubled times, and a female chemist who broke through the constraints of her era—they teach him the foundations of thought, and he comes to understand the dreams they left unfinished. A story of mutual redemption, of passing a flame from one generation to the next. Though the light is faint, it is enough to start a prairie fire.