My Friends

A seven-year-old boy is sent to the countryside to be with his grandfather Li Fuchang. By pure chance, the old man finds out where an old friend is, whose days are numbered. He then decides to travel with his motorized tricycle to visit him, taking the child with him.

In 1978, Bao Zhenjiang graduated from Kaifeng Xiqu School of Drama. The school's graduation repertoire was "Bao Longtu". Just before graduation, his best friend Jin Hong was injured and could not play. Forty years later, Bao Zhenjiang and Li Yixiang embarked on the road to the United States and sang the "Bao Long Tu" of the year at the Times Square in the United States with the students of the drama school. Chen Shan lives by opening an ancestral beef soup shop. The shop is not big, there are only two guys, and the location is deep in the alley. Most of the customers are mainly the old neighborhoods. Beef soup tastes pure and is very popular among customers. Chen Shan and his son Chen Qingfeng have a deep gap. When his son returned home to commemorate his mother's third anniversary, the conflict between father and son finally broke out.

With both parents working far away, ten-year-old Chuang is being raised by extended family in his home village, where thousands of years of rural tradition collide with the socio-economic changes of China in the early 1990s.