A mother and her son living amid economic turbulence in the beautiful Chinese green tea-farming landscape.

With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by extended family in his home village, where thousands of years of rural tradition collide with the socio-economic changes of China in the early 1990s.

Zhang Junrui and Cui Yingying fall passionately in love, but after he saves her family, Madame Cui breaks her pledge to wed them, leaving Yingying torn between desire and duty.

After getting married and having a son, a middle-aged man finally comes out as gay and divorces his wife. At his son’s wedding, the son invites his gay friends, but hesitates to invite his father as it may take time to bridge the distance between them.