Bai Mu

Após o fim da guerra civil chinesa em 1949, o Partido Comunista passou a regra no continente e Kuomingtang foi forçado a retirar-se para a ilha de Taiwan. O novo poder, juntamente com outras partes, em seguida se uniram para organizar o primeiro Política do Povo Chinês Conferência Consultiva (CCPPC) e discutir o estabelecimento da República Popular da China (RPS).

During the ten years of Chaos, the young lady from businessman Zhang's family takes care of the whole family and keeps everyone together.

While looking for his cat, a young boy meets and befriends his neighbor, who is a biology professor.

Nai Qing is one of them left behind by her husband, who goes to San Francisco. She meets Jia Dong, a taxi driver whose wife is in Japan. They feel lonely and fall in love with each other...Nai Qing is pregnant, she in eager to let Jia Dong know this and call him.

In 1949, as the country celebrates liberation, KMT agents are ploting.

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the collective's "capitalist" health care clinic, then investigates and exposes a sinister plot by the clinic's staff.

Lu Ban's second short titled The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles (不拘小节的人 bùjū xiǎojié de rén). He carefully toned down the political satire here, switching his target to intellectuals instead of bureaucrats. The main character, Li Shaobai, is a rude literary critic who goes to a conference to lecture about satirical literature. Li is absolutely full of himself, and constantly misunderstands other people. Like Before the New Director Arrives, The Man Who Doesn’t Bother about Trifles was greeted with plenty of positive responses. Still, while Lu tried to be more careful with this second short, this didn’t stop some critics from taking issue with its ridiculous main character and humor.

The clan law of the Yang family works against the relationships of a widow and her daughter until a new marriage law is enacted after liberation.

In 1947, the Chinese Red Army sets a trap for the Nationalist forces in Jiangsu province.