대학에 입학하자마자 엄마가 교통사고로 중태에 빠지자 슬픔에 잠긴 ‘샤오링’은 갑작스레 시공을 초월해 1981년으로 돌아간다. 하늘에서 갑자기 뚝 떨어진 샤오링이 덮친 건 젊은 시절의 어머니 ‘리환잉’이다. 우연인 듯 아닌 듯 맞닥뜨린 두 사람은 단짝 친구 같은 사촌 자매지간이 된다. 엄마가 변변치 못한 자기 때문에 불행한 삶을 살았다는 자책감에 시달렸던 샤오링은 젊은 시절의 엄마 리환잉을 행복하게 해주기 위해 온갖 일을 벌인다.
Ma Liu has a happy family, but a paternity test leads him to learn that his son may not be "his own", and in a fit of grief, he and his wife Niu Yun engage in a battle of wits.
During the period of the Republic of China, the Song family troupe suddenly broke into a wounded female revolutionary, Bai Rouge. Bai Rouge was chased and killed all the way by external warlord forces. Song Xiaodong, the second son of the Song family, saved Bai Rouge righteously in order to protect the life of his comrade. Song Xiaodong led the brothers to escort Bai Rouge out of the city to start a unique battle of wits and courage with the enemy, and staged a thrilling battle of life and death.
