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Four people in a Chinese city live through a complicated day as their lives intersect.

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

Ten-year-old dreams of water pistol. Grandfather promises it as ghost after death. Hunt ensues, blurring dreams, reality, past, present. Portraits generations' love of rural China land.

In 1983, Chinese-American teen Marlene attends an all-white camp, making choices to fit in that haunt her. By 2024, she is a rising politician whose past resurfaces when her old camp friend Charlene returns.

Yu Mi, a young boy who lives with his grandma in a village alone, misses his mother who ran away. At his leisure, he would lie down in the fields, enjoying playing with corns. One day he tells grandma that he wants to marry corn.

11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school's daily gymnastics, his teacher recommends that he wear a new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang encounters a wounded man on the run and their fates are intertwined.

Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. In his quest to understand what happened, he realizes he knew very little about his own son. He starts a journey back to Chongqin, a city he once lived. He will understand the impact of his paternal repeated absence on the life of his child.

Deng is a stubborn retired widow who spends her days caring about her two grown up sons and her elderly mother, despite her family efforts to stop her. But her daily routine starts derailing when she keeps receiving anonymous calls..

A divorced couple learns that the way to possibly save daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. Problem is: They're both already remarried.

Factory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits.

Lao Yang is an Erdosian businessman well in his 60s. He was broke years ago due to local economy decline. One day, he misappropriates a sum of money his children gathered for his wife's surgery. The children hold him in custody, forcing him to return it back. Lao Yang, outraged, takes them to court - It appears to be a reckless choice, which kicked off the whole family tragedy.