Jiang Wen's masterpiece after seven years of dormancy consists of four short stories full of magical realism. In 1976, in a remote mountain village in the south, Li Dongfang's (Jaycee Chan) mother went crazy because of a pair of shoes, and became a crazy mother (Zhou Yun), who was crazy all day long. One day, Li Dongfang accidentally discovered the truth about his crazy mother's madness... In 1976, in a university, a movie was shown on the playground at night. Five women claimed that they were "touched on the buttocks". Teacher Liang (Anthony Wong) became a suspect by mistake, and someone began to help him clear the suspicion in secret... In 1976, Old Tang (Jiang Wen) and his wife (Kong Yishan) were sent down to the small mountain village where Li Dongfang was. Old Tang goes hunting in the mountains with the children in the village every day, living a carefree life. Tang's wife feels neglected and prepares to find a new life for herself... In 1958, in Xinjiang, two women riding camels, Tang's wife and her pregnant crazy mother, walk side by side. What greet them are two completely different destinies... The entanglement several years later, which began with their encounter in the vast Gobi Desert, has already been predestined.