A story that revolves around five families in the neighborhood and their interactions with their friends and family during the late 1980s. Inside a small city in the south of China lived a mix of people both young and old. There was Gao Xiao Min and her three sisters, four boys with very different personalities and their parents who worry over and laugh about the simplest things. Gao Xiao Min bears the burden of their family's debt and her father's unemployment. Bao Zi's dad has had to deal with ups and downs. This is a slice of life view into the ordinary living of a special neighborhood.