Plot

Narrator of the story: A villager dumbly recalled that in 1974, China was in the late stage of the Cultural Revolution, a series of past events in a village. The Xiangyuan family suddenly caught fire and his wife was burned. The police did not find any suspicious signs after the investigation. Xiang Yuan's daughter Shuixi left home and met the projectionist Li Erbao in the county town. The water sister used Li Erbao to monitor his father Xiang Yuan. . Hammond head often uses his brother and his mother and family member Liu Chunyu to date in reeds. One day, Jiao Qisheng of the village raped the hammer head at the construction site. The head of the brigade, Xiang Yuan, concealed the scandal in order to keep his position. Jiao Laisheng picked up the hammer, and Liu Chunyu was unable to oppose the loss of the hammer, and soon she lost her job as a private teacher. Tanzizi in the village was a fishing expert. Once the fishing was planted by the people in the neighboring villages, after Tan Zizi was detained, the family was despised in the village. Shui sister accidental pregnancy, Li Erbao is in love with the daughters of the county leadership, the water sister regardless of Xiang Yuan discourage, determined to give birth to children. At this time, the murders of the water village that were forgotten by the villagers gradually opened the truth. The story tells the lives of several family members, and in particular emphasizes that the fate of each family is influenced by the local custom of folk customs. The director used a panoramic perspective to show the people and affairs of remote villages. The film's imagery style is poetic and genre-like. It recreates the survival and development of rural China in the 1970s. It is a unique memory film.