1. Synopsis: In a city in the early 1980s, Liu Hongchang, an older young man who works in a state-run canteen, falls in love with Wenhui, who has given up the chance to go to university because of her family's poverty. Although Liu Hongchang's mother and brother tried to stop him, Liu Hongchang married Wenhui. Wen Hui's younger brother, Wen Ge, and younger sister, Wen Yuan, are also hostile to this brother-in-law. After Wen Hui got pregnant for the second time, there was a disaster in the family.

2. Seventeen-year-old Wen Yuan left home because of gambling with Liu Hongchang, and was spoiled by his street punk, Big Yellow Cat. In order to avenge his sister, sixteen-year-old Wen Ge assassinated the big yellow cat. Wen Hui suffered this strong stimulus bleeding to death in the hospital. A series of family changes so that Liu Hongchang can only grief y repressed in the bottom of the heart, to carry the stormy home. Years passed, Wenda went to college; while Yu Qiuhua was killed in an accidental car accident. In order to fulfill his promise in the last moments of the life of Qiu Hua, Liu Hongchang guarded a hut, silently waiting for the return of relatives.