In the increasingly competitive contemporary society, parents hope that their son will become a dragon and their daughter will become a phoenix. However, when their hopes and desires cannot be realized, the distorted mentality leads to the true story of the mother killing her son. Who will return the joyful childhood dreams of children?

Xingxian is a 18 year old girl who finds herself engaged to a 8 year old boy. When a young man her age comes to town, she falls in love. They eventually elope and she become the first girl from her village to break the tradition of arranged marriage.

Our Field depicts the lives of five sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution and follows their continuous search for meaning during the subsequent years.