"Call me when you need me", this simple sentence quietly conveys the emotional power of "communication".
At thirty, Luo Danni is facing challenges in her family, career, and love life. A sudden event changes her perspective and leads her to reflect on her past. As she navigates new opportunities, she develops a different outlook on life and decides to take charge of her future. However, the journey proves to be more complicated than she anticipated, as she encounters various obstacles and meets different people along the way.
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.