"Wutou Guild" focuses on the year before the liberation of Beiping, Beijing, a small civilian yard called Wutou Guild, the landlord Yuan Guozhong (played by He Bing) guards his own yard and his son, by eating rent, brewing moonshine and pickles to make a living. The former Qing dynasty scholar Gu Yuezong (Pu Cunxin), relying on the sale of the house to transfer the deed to play a word game, has been relying on the small courtyard does not go, living in the house for more than 20 years. Xiao Qishan (played by Yang Lixin), the head of the security all day to urge donations and taxes, arresting soldiers, counting the money of the neighbors and Yuan Guozhong of this small courtyard. The two women in the small courtyard, one is a former "dark door" of the cook daughter-in-law Tian Cuilan (Song Dan Dan), a doctor's wife, and her husband eloped to the former Qingge Jin Murong (Xu Fan), two women a worship Jesus, a worship Maitreya Buddha, from the beginning of the pinch to the end of the "life and death", to the end! "Life and death" but then cooperated ...... drama through the nest in the Guild Hall of a few small households of the people's sadness and joy, separation and harmony, hope and despair, showing the old Beiping all kinds of people's life course.

One year before the liberation of Beiping, a neighborhood called "Wutou Guild" was opened. In a small courtyard called "Voodoo Hall", there lived several families struggling at the bottom of society, these small people with all kinds of shortcomings, some love money as much as their lives, some are mean-spirited, and some are careful ...... In the darkness before the dawn, these small people struggled with the life of hardship, all kinds of exorbitant taxes, the fraud of the evil people, and even fate and the human heart. And even fate and the human heart for a variety of struggle, and the hardships of life ultimately can not extinguish the beauty of human nature, in the dawn will appear, the old passed away, the new came ......