Autumn of 1982, in a small town on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. A story about two childhood friends staying together through the Cultural Revolution.

In a small seaside town, a single father called Lao Yu is driving a sightseeing car; Jian Rue and Fang Da, a couple wants to have a child; brothers from the car repair shop... These little people living on different lives at the bottom of society, are set to a life threatening journey on day with typhoon. On the edge of the cliff of life and death, death is getting closer, time is slipping away, and the chance of survival is getting smaller and smaller... How should they compete for the remaining chance of survival?

Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.

Yong, head of the security section of the hotpot factory which is about to be demolished, trying to save his brother Hao Zi who owned gambling debts. In the case of salary arrears, he reluctantly took the factory's 'mascot' golden dragon fish ready to cash in to save his brother. Unexpectedly, the USB disk in the stomach of the fish was involved in the the factory land transaction. However, such an important golden dragon fish was stewed and eaten by Hao Zi, and they were forced to be involved in a series of dispute.

A wig shop next to the cancer hospital. Most of the customers here are cancer patients. Yang Shuai, a young barber with a negative attitude towards life, meets Gao Xue, a nurse who is suffering from pancreatic cancer. The two fall in love. In the last moments of Yang Shuai's life with Gao Xue, they find the meaning of survival and the truth, goodness and beauty of life.