Wei He

Liu and Deng are a couple both in their 70s who have been married for nearly half a century and lived in a small inland city of China. The family of Liu and Deng is a typical ordinary family of China. The eldest daughter Liqin, divorced with a teenage son, lives with them. The second daughter Xiaomin and youngest son Xujun live in far away cities, married and with their own families. They are also too busy to visit the parents, therefore the old couple decide to travel a long way to visit them. It will be a special journey where they will do everything they can to keep the family tied together despite the distance, being the family their sole purpose in life.

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

中国・チンタオ。水族館で働く心誠(シンチョン / ジェット・リー)は、妻に先立たれ、21歳になる自閉症の息子大福(ターフー / ウェン・ジャン）を男手ひとつで大切に育ててきた。ある日心誠はガンで余命わずかと診断され、息子の将来を案じて心中を図る。だが、泳ぎの得意な大福が海面に顔を出したため、心誠は息子を預かってくれる施設さがしに奔走するとともに、大福に一人で生きていく術(すべ)を一つ一つ教えていく…。

The story follows the elephant keeper in the Beijing Zoo who maintains an aquarium of fish in her home (hence the two-animal title), and her lesbian lover, a fabric saleswoman in an outdoor market. Her relationship is tested, however, when her recently divorced mother returns to town in the hope of setting her daughter up in marriage. Further complicating matters is one of Xiaoqun's ex-lovers also returning to her life with the law in pursuit.