The film is about the life of a family of seven. Ah Nan is a senior university student, he loves his classmate Dan Niu, a beautiful girl who comes back from Canada. When Dan Niu learns Ah Nan's parents are drunkards and gamblers and his brothers are thieves and blockheads, they break up. After losing his love, Ah Nan drops out. Phoebe, a friend of Ah Nan, her parents die in a plane crash, but she doesn't give up her hope for life. Ah Nan is influenced by Phoebe and is determined to live hard and change the situation. The whole family is influenced by his spirit, they open a boarding house.