At the beginning of 1960s, a capital city of northeast, lived a few but is tormented by hunger light...
At the beginning of 1960s, a capital city of northeast, lived a few but is tormented by hunger light of heart from care of the boy, Wang Xiaosong, Liu Zhenxing, Han Debao, Tsui Hark naughty, into the same back, the daily trouble continues. Among the families of Zhang Meng's dissatisfaction with their behavior, often a snitch, gentle virtuous Hao plum stands silently in the one side, see the boys rushed past grey childhood. After this, all kinds of movement one after another, never stop, the boys grew up in the slogan, they respond to the leadership of the call to the countryside, back to the city, experiencing this reform and opening up the vicissitudes of life. Former friends gathered to leave, toward a different road forward, taste the taste of life. In the era of the background, the individual so small, but burst out of a different kind of luster...... The film according to the author Liang Xiaosheng's original adaptation of the same name.