A portrait of urban anomie focusing on two bohemian artists who drift through the miasma of old Beijing in the 1980s.

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.

A retired widow has her daily routine derailed when she starts receiving mysterious, anonymous phone calls.

A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugitive and struggles to understand the adult world.

年过半百的航运船长林权海（王学圻 饰）在14年后重返重庆家中，他一心忙于事业，以致接连遭遇两次失败的婚姻，而在他外出期间，25岁的儿子林波（子义 饰）也因在超市抢劫、伤人被警方当场击毙。对林权海来说，这个阔别已久的城市有着太多太多让他难以理解的变化。在此之后，他接连拜访前妻李育英（丁嘉丽 饰）、朋友老金（王奎荣 饰）、老金的儿子昊子（秦昊 饰）、女店员玲子、被劫持的人质竹青（范冰冰 饰）、林波的女友小雯（李菲儿 饰）以及击毙林波的刑警刘成（张嘉译 饰），只为看清儿子真正的面目和内心，以及十数年落转所失落的情感碎片……
本片取材自发生在重庆的一起真实事件。

A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.

In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love with a local boy, threatening their chance of a return to the city.