An experimental "dream yoga" master Li Shihao experiences a stroke and falls into a coma. His daughter decides to go to his dream world to drag him out and wake her father up.
After her mother Li Huanying is fatally injured in a car accident in 2001, grief-stricken Jia Xiaoling finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she becomes her mother's close friend. Jia Xiaoling feels that she has not been a good enough daughter in the present, so back in 1981 she does all she can to make Li Huanying happy, including setting her up with a factory manager's son, Shen Guanglin, in the hope of giving her mother a better husband, a better daughter, and a better life than she had the first time around.
Thriller de espionagem passado durante a Segunda Guerra, em Xangai, que conta a história de uma jovem chamada Wang Jiazhi (Wei Tang), envolvida num perigoso jogo emocional e de intriga com o político Mr. Yee (Tony Leung Chiu Wai).