Set in the summer of 1976, people and stories in the disaster relief after a violent earthquake.

A disfigured musical genius roams a traditional Chinese opera house, punishing those who offend him.

The events that take place on a city bus taken daily by workers, students, intellectuals, housewives and schoolchildren are depicted, and the lives of the two conductors, a hard-working young woman and an impatient and lazy man are contrasted.