Zhao Fuyu

The lives of three people entwine in Beijing's Underground City.

In the winter of 1948, the Huaihai battlefield. The telephone operator Yuxiang (played by Huang Xiaolei) rescued the rural girl Yuxiang (played by Li Xiuming) who was about to hang herself during the mission. Yuxiang has nothing to do with her, and she is willing to accept her personally and tell her sufferings of being homeless.

Chinese submarine 980 is ordered to be alert for unauthorized foreign observers of a Chinese missile launch.

Set in an old time in China, a young man buys a bride for marriage. The marriage brings new thoughts to the village because of the resistance of the bride.

In 1983 Beijing, Shu Xiaocun bonds with homing pigeons "Marathon" and "Cinderella" through Yunzi, their owner. Enlisting as a signal soldier, he deploys the pigeons to relay orders at a remote outpost. After sacrificing himself to save a comrade, his red-star badge is sent via pigeon to Yunzi—sealing their unspoken camaraderie beyond life and duty.