With the fishermen's life on the southeastern coast in the early 1960s as its background, the film depicts a group of militia women who work both as fisher women and fighters defending their homes and the motherland.
In Liujiajiao Village, a border area in Shanxi, during the Anti-Japanese War, Xiao Erhei attempts to marry Xiaoqin, despite opposition from various conniving locals.
Set in 1950s, just after the launch of first Marriage Law of PRC. People in a village of Shandong Province, argue and dispute the problem of freedom of love.