It is the late 1920s when six-year-old Yingzi and her family move to Beijing. As Yingzi explores the busy streets and alleys, she befriends a widow who, driven mad by grief, stands vigil at the entrance of her hutong, waiting for her missing daughter to return.

A murder investigation in Donghai City uncovers a larger conspiracy.

Biography of Red Army commander Luo Xiao, known as Xiao Luo when a slave, who joined the Chinese army in 1915.

A woman leaves her husband after the death of their son. She becomes a well-known but unhappy socialite.

Around the turn of the millennium and with the entire city in chaos, the government decides to eradicate the corrupt underground entertainment industry and money laundering practices to revitalize order and reduce crime.