Farmer Luo Xiaoshan is unlucky in love.
A girl comes back to the city after the Cultural Revolution but can not get a job because of her disability. With the help of people around, she starts up a flower shop and cultivates a rare breed of chrysanthemum.
The fiance of a woman who was murdered with her whole family when the father refused to sign a statement supporting the Japanese in China in 1928 carries out revenge.