The play tells the story of three couples in their 30s and 40s who are trapped by life in a fast-paced environment and try to save themselves so as to realize their own life values. Shen Lin (played by Yin Tao), who has been a full-time housewife for five years, encountered her husband Na Wei (played by Wang Xiao) losing his job. Both husband and wife were unemployed, their second child was waiting to be fed, and the mortgage was approaching. After Shen Lin repeatedly hit a wall on her way back to the workplace, she chose to become a self-employed person to achieve re-employment; Shen Lei (played by Qin Junjie), who graduated from a prestigious school, passed the civil service exam and worked in the archives department of the unit. His life was peaceful and peaceful, but his wife Xie Meilan (played by Chen Haoyu) divorced him because he was content with the status quo. Shen Lei's faith collapsed, he quit his job and ran away from home; Na Jun (played by Zhang Zhehua), a programmer with an annual salary of one million, was forced to move forward by the gears of a large factory. He suffered from panic disorder due to the high-intensity work and tried hard to cover up for fear of losing his job, which made it difficult for his girlfriend Li Xiaoyue (played by Zhang Ruonan) who took the life attitude of enjoying life to understand, and the two people who loved each other gradually drifted away. Faced with their own predicaments in life, they neither complain nor feel sorry for themselves, but face their inner selves and overcome life crises together.