Cui Mingliang (Wang Hongwei), Yin Ruijuan (Zhao Tao), Zhang Jun (Liang Jingdong), and Zhong Ping (Yang Tianyi) are actors from the Fenyang County Art Troupe in Shanxi Province. In the early days of reform and opening up, they lived an ordinary life, but they had a relatively rich spiritual world. The continuous deepening of reform and opening up has allowed them to see all kinds of new things, and has also made them have a better understanding of themselves and embarked on different paths in life. However, when the time came to the end of 1980, they found that although they had already changed beyond recognition, they still had nothing. Compared with coastal cities like Guangzhou, the pace of reform and opening up in small inland Chinese counties such as Fenyang is always slow and dignified, but Cui Mingliang and others did not realize this. And they constantly lowered their bottom line to make money, which caused a complete break in their spiritual world.