During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

The United Nations Narcotics Control Organization and the Chinese and Burmese police jointly combat a drug trafficking organization headed by the Saka Group, which is attempting to sell drugs to the world through China.

Guizhou province, southern China, spring 1980. Schoolboys Zhao Qiangsheng (Ma Guoxing) and Fulai (Wang Shibin), who've spent their whole life in a remote village, hear from a PLA soldier about a thing called a "city", full of people, buildings and cars, three mountains away. Full of curiosity, and with the orphaned Fulai fed up with being passed around the community, the two set off to reach it when their school is closed for five days...

In order to treat his 6-year-old son suffering from asthma, Wu Hai's friend Zhong Zhenjiang encourages him to get deliberately acquainted with Miaomiao. She is a network anchor who is also at the bottom and determined to brew a marriage scam with ulterior motives..