Xiaoxiang, a 55-year-old woman who lives with her idling bachelor son, meets a man who makes a living by arranging local death ceremonies. Their hearts inch closer toward each other, but nothing can change her caged life.
Following an accident that the grandpa of the family slipped in a public bathhouse and couldn't be cured, an ordinary, modern Chinese family - composed of four generations from grandma to great granddaughter - struggles to confront their respective challenges at different life stages.
