Rookie policeman Tai Lin yearned to be an artist before he failed an examination and followed in his father's footsteps. One day he interrupts an apparent suicide attempt by a woman standing on the edge of a bridge.
Li Yifan
General Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda return from America to lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb.
Father
Un viejo cartero que ha pasado su vida repartiendo correo por la provincia china de Hunan va a jubilarse. Le sucede en el puesto su hijo. Pronto, el hijo empieza a apreciar la profesión que ha heredado de su padre, pese a lo dura que es.
Tian Gongshun (as Rujun Teng) / 田恭顺
Hailed by the Chinese government as one of the ten best films of the 1996-97 season, this irony-laced light drama is based on a novel by Fang Fang, and begins with the brutal slaying and robbery of a dock worker's family. The city assigns one of its best detectives, Yan Gao to find "the Wise One," the crime lord behind the murders. To do this, Yan sets up a series of surveillance sights around the city. When port guard Ye learns that he and his supervisor have been chosen to monitor one of the Wise One's main hideouts, he is delighted. It is the most exciting thing to have happened to him in years. But problems come because he must work nights and is sworn to secrecy. His girlfriend Bai Lin misinterprets his absences and this causes trouble. More trouble comes when her old lover shows up. Matters are made worse when a message for Ye and Tian to stop their surveillance does not get through.
Uncle Luohan
China, años treinta. Una joven es enviada por su padre para convertirse en la esposa del propietario de una bodega de vino de sorgo, que está enfermo de lepra. Durante el viaje se enamora de uno de los escoltas.
