It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by grief, stands vigil at the entrance of her hutong, waiting for her missing daughter to return.

A story about promotion of the birth control policy in a traditional Chinese rural village.

A successful but highly stressed researcher goes to a psychiatrist after being plagued by creepy mysterious phone calls.

The police try to recover the blueprint of a newly designed submarine after it is stolen by enemy spies.

A medical student is admitted to hospital with a mild neck injury, but her condition deteriorates rapidly and she dies in agony. Her classmates conclude that her death was due to malpractice, but they are blocked at every turn in their investigation.

A detective teams up with a chivalrous thief to catch a Japanese spy.

An old mother of five struggles to get by after her husband is killed during the liberation war. The simple and kind-hearted Ah-Fu stumbles across them, and tries to help them as much as he can.