Shu Qingcheng and Xu Chen are a young couple who have put down roots in Beijing. Their lives had been steady and orderly, until the question of finding a school-district home for their daughter stirred up their first real waves of conflict. For the first time, they realized that even people heading in the same direction could fall into different rhythms.
Her close friend Zhou Bali is making a different choice at a crossroads in her marriage. Her cousin Dong Yali, meanwhile, is forced to face another side of life after her family falls on hard times.
They are all women who left distant hometowns to make a new life elsewhere. But when career pressure, family conflict, and the hardships of reality come knocking one after another, Beijing teaches them to keep running, while also giving them somewhere to run toward.
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