In the winter of 1948, Chen Mingli, the young owner of "Bo Gu Zhai" in Liulichang, Peking, guarded his ancestral antique shop amidst the turmoil of the current situation. He is proficient in identifying treasures, but cannot understand the signs of the times. Thirty years later, his son Chen Huaiyuan was on the other side of the Shenzhen River, looking at the neon lights of Hong Kong with only fifty Hong Kong dollars in his pocket. From the sandalwood incense in Liulichang to the electronic screens of the stock exchange, three generations of a family have stumbled forward in the tide of the times, interpreting "value" and "livelihood" in different ways.
