Entering the pear garden with broken fingers, playing in dreams will bind this life. Xiaodouzi has been tempered by a professional class and transformed into the unparalleled Cheng Dieyi. He joins hands with Duan Xiaolou to become famous in Peiping, but he is deeply involved in emotional entanglements on and off the screen. Under the influence of the times, from the Republic of China to the Cultural Revolution, a drama of Farewell to My Concubine reveals the madness and desolation of the actor's life, writing a bloody elegy of art and humanity.