The vigorous head, Qiao Haiyun, ever set rules that every New Year all family members must go home. No one had broken rules all the time, until the most honest third-generation Li Yijin suddenly broke the tradition to go to her boyfriend’s home for the New Year, causing family contradiction. Qiao Haiyun has three daughters. The three generations of women in the Meng family were like a flock of birds. Although they watched each other from the distance, they supported each other and coexisted.
In the early 80's of the 20th century, Wang Xue Hua, Dong Fang Hong and Yang Si Yu are all born on the same day. With the birth of the children, emotional entanglement of three families and two generations unfolded little by little. But soon, this peaceful families coexistence ends abruptly. The feud between the Wang's family and the Yang's family's fathers starts involving their beloved ones, and causes the two people who loved each other to separate. Unable to look at the crumbling, long-term ties, the youngest generation decides to do everything to reconcile the feuding parties.
A story that details the the lives of ordinary civilians amidst the magnanimous changes in Chinese society over the years. At the end of the 1970s, the Zhou family lived in a provincial city in the north. The father, Zhu Zhi Gang, has just participated in the Third Front Movement in Xi Nan. The eldest son, Zhou Bing Yi, responds to a national call to become part of the first batch of "educated" youths sent to live and work in rural areas. The eldest daughter, Zhou Rong, follows her poet husband to the countryside of Guizhou. The youngest son, Zhou Bing Kun, is the only one left at home with their mother. In the span of 50 years, the Zhou family is swept by the tides of change in China.
Wang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border for 32 years.
