Sorehead singer Zhao Liang drifts around all day long. One day he encounters a blind girl Jing Jing who is under control by a criminal scrounger gang.

A village chief with a tendency to mete out justice according to his own code is finally reported to authorities after a woman hangs herself.

The film tells an emotional story between a nanny from Northeast China and a lonely old lady from Beijing. Two painful lives, a pair of humorous women who hate each other but cherish each other.

An interweaving tale of 3 characters as they navigate various struggles dealing with health, loss, dreams, and unfulfillment. Lu Bai Cheng is a bartender who comes home nightly to his mentally ailing wife and two children. Across town, Bai Rong, a music teacher and wife to a wealthy businessman, is searching for answers to her amenorrhoea. Bai Rong's father-in-law, a retired soldier, is facing his own difficulties as well - needing a full-time caregiver after the death of his wife.