In a small county in Shandong Province in 2008, single mother Wei lives alone with her daughter Miao. A mother's desperate efforts to get her daughter into China's top universities through "college entrance exam immigration" change both of their destinies. However, this has put them into an even more precarious situation than when they started.
Xiao Zhan
트럭기사 쉬동은 아내 메이링의 출산일이 다가오자 사랑하는 개를 떠나보낸다. 새 주인이 된 부동산 개발업자 마첸리는 빚쟁이들의 독촉에 어쩔수 없이 개를 요리하게 되고, 그 사실을 알게 된 쉬동은 분노에 가득 차 복수를 시도한다. 하지만 실패를 거듭하며 마첸리의 어려운 상황을 공감하게 된다. 한편, 쉬동의 외도 사실을 알게된 메이링 또한 복수를 결심하고 주체할 수 없는 증오가 세 사람 사이에 퍼져간다. 사육사의 먹이에 길들여진 만주의 시베리아 호랑이처럼 사람들도 그들의 부조리한 일상의 삶에 갇힌다.
One night, Zhou Jun took a taxi. During his stay in the taxi, he told the driver about the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, wife and son. When the mystery was to be solved, the driver threw Zhou Jun into a bigger mystery.
Liu Jincai, a taxi driver, falls in love with unemployed Wu Li. Wu Li's parents ask 20 000 yuan to Liu's family to cover their daughter's fee for nurse school in a bigger city, in exchange of a promise of marriage just after graduation. Liu's parents firmly refuse. Despaired, Liu Jincai commits suicide with poison. During Jincai's funeral, beyond his buddies, his brother Liu Jinbao swears to exterminate Wu Li's whole family. Wu's family urgently moved away, Jinbao searches downtown on a motorbike with a knife...
Wang Quan and Liu Jinglei are migrant workers drifting north, the Spring Festival is coming -- but they don't have the money to travel home for the New Year. In desperation, the two come up with a bad idea, and embroil themselves in a kidnapping plot.
