La humilde y sencilla Ma, y el tímido Cao, han sido expulsados de sus respectivas familias y obligados a contraer un matrimonio concertado. Ahora tendrán que aunar sus fuerzas y construir un hogar donde sobrevivir. En medio de la adversidad, comienza a forjarse entre ellos un vínculo, ya que tanto Ma como Cao, en sintonía con los ciclos de la Tierra, se crean un refugio en el que pueden prosperar.
Uma, a 22-year-old African girl, travels thousands of miles across the northeastern China countryside, stepping on a journey looking for her baby’s father.
A second generation migrant with a dehumanizing factory job returns to the land her family members left behind when they went to the city for a better life.
While he was in Macau Pan Yiming unexpectedly receives a will from his father. They haven't seen each other in 30 years, still father left Pan Yiming with a huge hesitance, asking him to attend the funeral in order to inherit it. Pan Yiming returns to the small village in southern China, where he founds out his former lovers, daughters he has never met, and some residual memories and intricate secrets.