Eight ordinary stories of love and hope that intersect in the winter of a raging epidemic, as people care for each other and save each other in the hope that spring will come.
A young woman Mianhua ("Cotton") gets a job which she has never done before: to be a full-time caretaker of an old stubborn boxer who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. The old man's son with his later wife lives overseas and almost takes no care of him, and his daughter with his ex-wife hires Mianhua to take care of him - but the daughter distrusts and despises all nannies for "knows only lying, abusing, and taking advantages". Under the same roof, however, the old man and Mianhua start to get along with each other well over time, and he starts to mistake Mianhua as his ex-wife whom he owed a love debt to. All of a sudden, Mianhua finds out that she got pregnant...
In an accident, a series of contradictions erupted on Highway 9. In a taxi, Yu Yinyin, a pregnant woman, was going to the hospital for a prenatal checkup. In a family car, husband Qian Dawei and wife Li Weiwei decided to divorce by agreement. Their son Qian Xiaomo was deadlocked and silent. They were deadlocked, and his son Qian Xiaomo watched coldly; Lu Nan, the bridegroom who was about to travel and flash marriage, was very nervous and was forced to see him off. Fangfang wanted to speak and stopped depressed. There are also all kinds of cars, trains, jeeps...
When the dissolute last emperor of the Sui Dynasty tries to hold an empire-wide beauty contest, a corrupt official takes advantage of the opportunity to divert money into his own coffers and steals the winner of the contest, Yingying, for himself. Yingying’s admirer, both caught up in the plot, flee for their lives, but fall into an ice cave and are quick-frozen — until a thousand years later, when the ice melts and the two men awake to find themselves in 21st-Century Beijing ..
