This film combines individual's destiny with generally background of the time, it expresses a sense of sadness and desolation, as well as social alienation and nowadays great mind-gap among people, it also shows a subtle yet complicated relationship in the world of Chinese people
it is about an ordinary Chinese citizen Jiang Yuan, who has always been financially supporting his girlfriend Zhang Dandan's study in Berlin. But due to long distance and longtime separation, there gradually come more and more problems in their relationship.