In the late 1970s, a family surnamed Zhou lived in the "Guangzipian" area of a provincial capital city in the north. His father Zhou Zhigang participated in the construction of the "Grand Third Front" in the southwest. The eldest son Zhou Bingyi responded to the country's call and became the first batch of educated youth sent to the countryside. The eldest daughter Zhou Rong followed her husband, a poet, to the countryside of Guizhou. The Zhou family only left the younger brother Zhou Bingkun and Zhou's mother to depend on each other. Over the past fifty years, the fate of the Zhou family has been intertwined with the changes of the times. Zhou Bingyi entered politics after graduating from university and experienced the ups and downs of his official career during the drastic reforms; Zhou Rong stayed in school to teach after receiving a doctorate, but had a bumpy love life and lived in France for twelve years by mistake. Zhou Bingkun and the beautiful but unfortunate woman Zheng Juan fell in love with each other. Through their own efforts, they grew from a worker to a literary and artistic worker. They experienced the pain of being laid off and the challenge of "going to work", and supported their neighbors, relatives and friends to move forward together in ordinary years. While fulfilling their respective life missions, the family also wrote an epic life epic of contemporary Chinese people.
