In Wuhan in the 1990s, in an ordinary family, the husband Ma Xuewu (played by Jiao Gang) was the director of a factory office of a state-owned enterprise, his wife Li Baoli (played by Yan Bingyan) was a hawker on Hanzheng Street, and they also had a son Xiaobao (played by Li Xian). Once the company allocated housing for this family to move into a new house, unexpectedly, a series of unexpected changes followed from the day of moving: the husband Ma Xuewu filed for divorce, the wife discovered that her husband had cheated, and the homeless mother-in-law wanted to move into the new house. Finally, Ma Xuewu went to the road of suicide under a series of blows. Baoli's friend Xiaojing (played by Zhao Qian) attributed all the bad luck to the bad feng shui of the new house, calling it "a thousand arrows piercing the heart". The stubborn Li Baoli was unwilling to compromise and was determined to support this family... The movie "A Thousand Arrows Piercing the Heart" was adapted from the novel of the same name by Fang Fang, a famous Wuhan writer, and was shortlisted for the main competition unit of the 25th Tokyo International Film Festival.