With the fishermen's life on the southeastern coast in the early 1960s as its background, the film depicts a group of militia women who work both as fisher women and fighters defending their homes and the motherland.
Set in 1950s, just after the launch of first Marriage Law of PRC. People in a village of Shandong Province, argue and dispute the problem of freedom of love.
In Liujiajiao Village, a border area in Shanxi, during the Anti-Japanese War, Xiao Erhei attempts to marry Xiaoqin, despite opposition from various conniving locals.
