A mother seeks out the first-born daughter she previously abandoned in order to try to persuade the daughter to donate bone marrow to her sick younger brother.

Pan Xiao, a young lawyer, goes to a rural small village settled in the western desert lands of China to handle the case of a falcon poacher who has ran over a policeman. Pan wins the case through sophisticated reasoning and forces the poacher to give him his car as a reward. Then, he just drives back home, but the return will not be an easy one.

As she approaches thirty, Wang Xiaolu, a city girl accustomed to partner-based friendships, watches her social circle fade as friends move on with their lives. Left confronting sudden loneliness in a fast-paced urban world, she sets out on a new journey to find connection, redefine companionship, and rediscover herself.