The first short film by Chinese sixth generation filmmaker Hu Xueyang.

Middle-aged Ma Zhongqi is the production manager of an advertising agency. He has separated from his hair-dresser wife, Jian Jia, and the two are planning to end their marriage of more than a decade. Jian Jia meets a strange boy who wears a wig, but wants to ask Jian Jia to do his hair. At first, Jian Jia thought he was playing a joke, but without hesitation, refused. The boy waited for her until she got off work; he told her that he had seen her in a magazine. Jian Jia saw that he had something [unspeakable?]. Jian Jia later learns that the boy is terminally ill, and he wants to ask Jian Jia to do his hair specifically for him because he wants to have good-looking hair and take an engagement photo with the girl he loves.

A physically challenged young woman dreams of winning medals and honors for her country and pushes her body to its limit.

The upsurge of going abroad has brought a large number of "left behind". Nai Qing is a "left behind lady" whose husband is far away in San Francisco.

A young boy sleepwalks into a shrouded reality of murder and rape in a small fishing village, amidst the emerging political and cultural turbulence of 1970's China.

A state-owned company's boss, Luo Jianqun (Zhou Lijing), is overwhelmed by the beauty of a farm girl, Qin Yanmei (Jin Qiaoqiao). The two quickly fall in love. For a time, Luo leaves his family for Qin; but Qin covets Luo's status and money, and is determined to stay with him for a long time. Luo's life is disrupted: Qin calls the president of Luo's company, and at a birthday banquet for Luo, she forces him to abandon the table that's full of relatives and friends, for the two-person ding area Qin's set up for her and him alone. Qin's possessiveness only becomes stronger and stronger.

Shanghai 1976 is a moving story that tells the tale of a forbidden love and of the loss of innocence in Shanghai, China, in the turbulent year 1976. Four young people come of age and fall in love against the backdrop of political and historical events. Their heritage reflects Shanghai's cosmopolitan history. Two Eurasian girls, sisters, meet and fall in love with two Chinese men. As their lives become more entangled, they find themselves ostracized. While the Great Cultural Revolution unravels around them, these four begin to dream new dreams, to reach for freedom and to nurture hope for a brighter future.