Xia Pier is a narrow street along the outside of the moat in Qianchuan County. It is neither urban nor rural. Most of the residents are vegetable farmers and are born to be maids. A few decades ago, Lower Wharf was the only wharf in the county, where cargo ships loaded and unloaded cargo or stayed overnight. Later, a new cargo wharf was built upstream, and Lower Wharf began to decline.
Lower Pier was famous for its prostitutes during the boom years. Nowadays, the girls from Xia Pier are beautiful, frivolous but independent-minded. They are not bound by worldly desires and concepts. They dare to act and act. They are at the bottom but unwilling to be left behind. The story takes place in the 1980s. The male protagonist Sanzi is a prominent figure in a small county town, and he is unique. His sexual enlightenment teacher Pan Liyun was an educated youth who returned to the city. She was nearly 10 years older than him, but she had a profound influence on him. Childhood sweethearts Ai Hong and Yan Zi each have love and life pursuits, but their fates are ill-fated. The third son has a soft spot for Ai Hong, but Ai Hong likes the poet Wang Haiyang and pays the price for it. Yanzi worked as a dancer and opened her own dance hall, but her three beloved sons could not do so. These women with different destinies help the third son gradually grow up and mature in different aspects, and the third son finally understands who he is and what he wants. Everyone has a different fate, a heavy price, and different endings.