A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.
Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.
In pre-communism China, a widowed man falls in love with a young colleague who's the same age as his own children.
