The new year is fast approaching and middle-aged screenwriter Wang Zi Liang is feeling the pressure. He has to deal with multiple issues concerning both his work and home life, making him feel 'sad in the new year'. When his mother asks the family to return home for the holidays, Zi Liang welcomes the opportunity of a break. However, old family conflicts quickly start to resurface and only a mother's love will be able to resolve them.

Wang Mao joins the army in order to earn money to marry his favorite girl. He struggled his life through the whole war against Janpanese invaders.

Set in 1979, a high rank navy political commissar's daughter's marriage creates trouble.

Three women from different walks of life are brought together by an abandoned baby.

The film tells the story of the protagonist "Yellow River", an outstanding young man in Beijing, responding to the government's call and staying in the village to his hometown to help his father and elders start their own businesses and get rich. Driven by the "Yellow River", the villagers actively breed Yellow River carp, plant sweet waxy corn, cherry tomatoes, raise geese, and establish breeding cooperatives to expand the scale of breeding.

Lu Jingsheng, a young analyst from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, who was going to study in the United States was sent to Lankao to help the poor. He didn't want to become an "enemy" with Fan Zhongzhou, the deputy secretary of the county party committee. The young man, who is determined to find a way out of China's rural areas in academia, runs into a "dirtbag" top boss who came from the grassroots step by step, and who accompanied the old secretary to Beijing 12 years ago to wear the "poor county" hat. Lu Jingsheng volunteered to go to Bazhuang, the poorest village in the county, as the first secretary. The emotional crisis between him and his girlfriend also broke out, and Lu Jingsheng was on the verge of collapse.

Near retirement, grassroots judge Gu Chengshan discovers a flaw in a case he ruled. Refusing “mechanical justice,” he pushes for a retrial to correct the verdict and protect fairness.