In a frozen town unwilling to stagnate, a middle-aged man meets true love and decides to come out of the closet. A lesbian couple decides to look for a gay man to marry and have a child. Behind their fiery love stories is an absurd drama of identity politics. The ghost of communism often wanders around the lonely souls.
In a small county in Shandong Province in 2008, single mother Wei lives alone with her daughter Miao. A mother's desperate efforts to get her daughter into China's top universities through "college entrance exam immigration" change both of their destinies. However, this has put them into an even more precarious situation than when they started.
Young man CHEN Yu returns to his hometown after a long absence. While wandering in the Daba Mountains with a close friend, Yu meets a girl whose father has gone lost, an aunt with vague memory and a stubborn elderly man. They talk about the changes among people from their hometown; someone has gone missing, some have returned with scars and some are about to escape. At the same time, the legend of a wizard named Duangong is fulfilled on Yu from time to time. Things move freely between dream and reality, and the noisy telephone occasionally pulls him out of his dream.
18-year-old Shengnan is invited to a mysterious party by her cousin. Upon arrival, Shengnan finds herself surrounded by greasy middle-aged men, with the exception of Jianguo, who is different. Shengnan and Jianguo decide to bail on the party, embarking on a night of adventures in the adult world.